Ines Geipel

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Ines Geipel (2004)

Ines Geipel , also Ines Schmidt (born July 7, 1960 in Dresden ), is a former German athlete and is now a professor at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . She works as a writer and journalist , especially in the processing of her experiences as a victim of the SED dictatorship, especially the state-decreed doping in the GDR competitive sport . The subject area was suppressed literature in the GDR . She was significantly involved, the writer Inge Müller(1925–1966) to make known. At times she dealt with the background to mass murders by individual perpetrators. From 2013 to December 2018 she was chairwoman of the doping victim support association .

Life

Ines Geipel grew up in Dresden . In 1974 they sent their parents to Thuringia to attend the boarding school in Wickersdorf , a “ special school with extended Russian lessons ”, which the Ministry for State Security (MfS) had a sponsorship agreement with. It was only in the late 1990s that she found out that her father, director of the Dresden Pioneer Palace, Schloss Albrechtsberg , was working under eight identities for the MfS in West Germany as a terrorist agent for Dept. IV through a look at her OPK . Her grandfather was active as a Nazi functionary in the SS . From 1977 she competed in competitive sports at SC Motor Jena and was a member of the GDR national athletics team in the early 1980s . After falling in love with a Mexican walker in a preparation camp for the Olympic Games in 1984, she wanted to flee the GDR. Her escape plans were thwarted by the state security and Ines Geipel was henceforth subjected to disintegration measures. The javelin thrower and later trainer at SC Motor Jena, Jürgen Falkenthal , spied on Geipel as a management IM ( unofficial employee ) with the code name "Ilja Vogelberg". During an appendix operation in 1985, on behalf of the Stasi, her entire abdomen and muscles were cut. After being banned from competitive sports in 1985, she began studying German at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . She was denied a dissertation or a professional perspective because of her contacts with the Jena opposition. In the summer of 1989, Geipel fled the GDR via Hungary and went to Darmstadt , where she completed a master's degree in philosophy at the Technical University . Since 2001 she has been professor of German verse at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin, where she now lives.

Ines Schmidt, Bärbel Wöckel, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlis Göhr

Like almost 12,000 athletes in the GDR, many of them unknowingly, Geipel was included in the system of organized doping . In 2000, Geipel was a co-plaintiff in the main Berlin trial for compulsory doping in the GDR, in which the former DTSB boss Manfred Ewald was sentenced to probation in twenty cases for aiding and abetting bodily harm . The judgment was upheld by the Federal Court of Justice, which classified forced doping as a moderate crime. Geipel was therefore recognized by the Federal Administration Office as a doping victim. On July 28, 2005, the former athlete asked the German Athletics Association to delete her name from the record list, as she had only achieved her record through involuntary involvement in the East German compulsory doping system and it was the result of bodily harm. The association was initially opposed to this request. In May 2006, after Geipel threatened legal action, her name was replaced with an asterisk.

Ines Geipel was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2011 for her commitment to literature suppressed in the GDR and for her reappraisal of the GDR's forced doping system, including compensation for doping victims . From 2013 to December 2018 she was chairwoman of the Doping Victims Aid . In 2017 Geipel was awarded the Golden Ribbon of the Sports Press .

In 2014 she was one of the signatories of the “Open Letter of Cultural Creators in Germany on the War in Gaza”, which was published on August 1, 2014.

In 2019 she said about the failure to come to terms with the history of the GDR that money alone would not make East Germany more democratic. She said it was "unbelievable the harshness with which the real victims of the second dictatorship are told away." Fifty years of dictatorship experience left a traumatized culture.

Literary production

About literature in the GDR

Ines Geipel began her writing career in 1996 with the publication of a volume under the title Irgendwo; I would like to see once more who has put together texts by and about Inge Müller and published them by Aufbau-Verlag . There was a dispute over this band. Brigitte Maria Mayer , the widow of Inge Müller's former husband Heiner Müller , rejected a "ballad" contributed by Wolf Biermann , which put Heiner Müller in a bad light, and put the publisher under pressure, as Der Spiegel reported on June 10, 1996 . On the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial stele that she had donated for Inge Müller on June 4, she had unplanned knowledge of the manuscript that was actually planned for publication in August. In a "follow-up" to the "afterword" dated June 16, Geipel reports that Biermann threatened to withdraw his second contribution (a letter) if Geipel would then resign. Only the “ballad” was dropped, for Geipel the conception failed. The volume was withdrawn from the market after only one edition. The excitement, the securing of the widely scattered estate, as well as Geipel's Inge Müller biography, which was published in 2002, then suddenly fell (which received a lot of praise), helped the Berliner to gain a comprehensive reception as an all-German poet (possibly in collaboration with Sonja Hilzingers Inge-Müller-Textsammlung That I don't choke on being quiet, also from 2002).

In 1999 Ines Geipel gave the band Die Welt ist ein Schachtel. Four authors in the early GDR: Susanne Kerckhoff , Eveline Kuffel , Jutta Petzold , Hannelore Becker . This as well as the work of Inge Mueller formed the fund for the established in 2001 " Archives of suppressed literature in the GDR ," which the author together with her fellow writers Joachim Walther has built and now more than 100 pre- and discounts from unpublished in the GDR Includes authors. Since 2005, the archive has been supplemented by the edition “The Secret Library”, Gutenberg Book Guild , Frankfurt / M., Whose editors are Ines Geipel and Joachim Walther. For this edition and the establishment of the “Archive of Suppressed Literature”, Geipel and Walther were awarded the Antiquaria Prize for the Promotion of Book Culture.

2009 appeared Geipels book Censored, secretive, forget about the living images of twelve at the time of the GDR ostracized authors, two of which under the conditions of detention in prison Hoheneck perished.

In 2015, the book Gesperrte Ablage was published in collaboration with Joachim Walther . Suppressed literary history in East Germany 1945–1989 . The book documents (in the appendix) the "Archive of suppressed literature in the GDR".

Own fiction

In 1999, Geipel's first novel Das Heft was published . Antje Rávic Strubel wrote about him: “If Kafka and Herta Müller had ever written a book together, they would have written one.” In 1999 the volume of poems Diktate was published .

In 2005 her second novel Heimspiel was published. In 1989, a young woman flees the GDR to the West via Hungary. Her memories of strange parents during these days are portrayed. Everything is also very reminiscent of Ines Geipel's biography. The reviewers of the big daily newspapers are bored to impressed by the style of the language. Die Welt wrote: "A farewell book, almost an elegy on a painful, aching homeland, overflowing with brilliant images."

Doping in the GDR and everywhere

In 2001 the former GDR competitive athlete published Lost Games. Journal of a doping trial . The book played a decisive role in the endorsement of the compensation fund for those injured in GDR sport , which the Bundestag decided in the same year in the amount of two million euros.

In the year of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , Geipel turned against post-communist doping with No Limit. How much doping can society tolerate . To do this, she also visited the doping control laboratory planned there , but beyond top-class sport , it is about doping in the fitness studio , neuro-enhancement and genetic engineering .

Society today: rampages

In 2004 her heavily controversial “literary documentation” was published . That's enough for today. Amok in Erfurt . The book raised questions about the elucidation of the school massacre in Erfurt and the security forces failure, the rescue workers lacking professionalism during the mission in the school. The Gasser Commission set up by the Thuringian state government , on the other hand, came to the conclusion that the representation of the investigating authorities had largely been confirmed. Although there were deficiencies in communication between the emergency services and failures to make preparations for the SEK mission, there were ultimately no serious consequences. The commission also stated that in this book, with regard to “his first-person shooter activities […] a picture of Robert Steinhäuser that does not correspond to reality is drawn” and “at this point it was obviously written in the blue without any reliable factual knowledge”; a friend of Steinhäuser "doesn't know anyone close to Robert Steinhäuser, with whom the author spoke." The Amok Complex or the School of Killing followed in 2012 through further rampages and mass murders between 1996 and 2011: Port Arthur , Emsdetten , Winnenden and Utøya . After the attack on an adolescent in Munich in 2016 , Geipel pointed out in particular that we should “talk about the ideality sickness of these young men”, and here, too, saw parallels to earlier rampages. "Offers are needed to bind them to society".

Life in the GDR

In her 2019 book Contested Zone. My brother, the east and hatred , Geipel takes up the topic of silence, which is so significant for GDR history, from the perspective of several generations. On the one hand, she breaks the “toxic silence” with which not only the SS past of her two grandfathers, but also the Stasi activities of her father was concealed. The author receives the impetus from her terminally ill brother, with whom she was at the mercy of her father's excesses of violence in her childhood. For his part, the six years younger brother had repressed the social constraints imposed by the SED dictatorship in the GDR to the point of self-denial. On the other hand, Geipel sees in these repression patterns a mutually dependent similarity with the "aggressive fear system, the commands of silence and lies on which the GDR built its state and to which the East later reacted with a collective memory loss." Geipel illuminates historically interesting connections between the The early years of the Soviet occupation zone and the 1970s and 80s of the later GDR. She describes how the Buchenwald concentration camp was appropriated and reinterpreted as a quasi-founding myth during the new state start in the Soviet sphere of influence. Walter Ulbricht , Stalin's representative for setting the communist course in the Soviet occupation zone, held a protective hand over former red prison functionaries who were heavily burdened by fellow prisoners. The reason, as Geipel makes clear in the sources, resulted from Ulbricht's “strategic history policy”, because with his quarter of Moscow returnees, he represented the minority compared to three quarters of Buchenwald prisoners. The “Buchenwald communists were so self-confident at first in this way in the hands of the party leadership, blackmailable and easy to use for the new Moscow line. ”Considerable action was necessary, the author continues, until the SED even managed this“ precarious axis rotation over the years. ”Finally For decades young people in the GDR made their vow to be consecrated on the site of the concentration camp, 14-year-old Geipel was one of them. The author also includes the novel Nackt unter Wölfen by a communist beech forest prisoner from 1958, which after initial party concerns could become a key novel of the early GDR. Only with this novel and its further exploitation in the GDR media did the instrumentalization of the camp finally change into a “Buchenwald staccato”, which, according to Geipel, “became (was) a program, an absolute, the state doctrine par excellence. A memory-political hypnosis, under which millions of East Germans were made loyal to the GDR, especially because in it the psychological depth formats of the post-fascist GDR were negotiated and subsequently concreted. Withhold, tell away, reinterpret, level, hide, avoid, forget. They were mimicry offers of power. She accepted the majority consciousness. "Ines Geipel" writes the history of the GDR as a drama of decades of repression of guilt, "in which the numerous evidence of anti-Semitic attacks disappeared in the drawers of the SED functionaries, while in the later phase of the regime" the scattered, Left punk scene criminalized and crushed, but the rampant skinhead culture was ignored or even tolerated. Strikingly often, according to Geipel, Skins were children of Stasi employees who then covered up crimes committed by their own sons. ”Geipel tried to provide an objective, almost microscopic view of the political and psychological forces that shaped GDR society.

Awards

Publications

Books

Radio plays

  • 1997: Together with Heike Tauch : Oh dear Augustin, how happy I am. Director: Ulrich Gerhardt (radio play based on Inge Müller, Irgendwo, I want to see again. ORB / DLF )

literature

  • Susanne Hochreiter: Joining in the Conversation. Comments on the tasks and attitudes of biography on the occasion of Ines Geipel's experiment on Inge Müller . In: Christian von Zimmermann , Nina von Zimmermann (eds.): Women's biographics. Biographies and portraits (=  Mannheim contributions to linguistics and literary studies. Volume 63 ). Narr, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-8233-6162-7 , p. 287–310 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Anke Gilleir: “Ophelia that the river has not kept”: Inge Müller's memory . In: Arne De Winde, Anke Gilleir (Hrsg.): Literature in crab: Necromancy and memoria in German-language literature after 1989 (=  Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies . Volume 64 ). Rodopi , Amsterdam / New York 2008, ISBN 978-90-420-2322-2 , pp. 109–124 , doi : 10.1163 / 9789004332973_008 ( discussion of Geipel's biography in the Google book search [accessed on March 14, 2019]): “This essay investigates the meaning of the different memories of Inge Müller; [...] focusing on Ines Geipel's extensive biography - it tries to show how and to what extent literary remembrance is caught in a struggle between narcissistic figuration and the impossibility of representation. "

Movies

  • Ines Geipel: From sprinting to writing. TV portrait by Radio Bremen for arte , 2008.
  • Lone Fighter (2013): Documentary about four top athletes from the former GDR, including Ines Geipel. Film premiere at the Berlinale 2013 .

Broadcast reports

Web links

Commons : Ines Geipel  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Ines Geipel in a project of the Nemetschek Foundation, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b "ZOV sports traitors. Top athletes on the run" Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name. Center for German Sports History Berlin-Brandenburg V., Berlin 2011, p. 26., ISBN 978-3-00-035054-2 .
  3. ↑ Against the smoke screen. In: Der Spiegel , April 24, 2006.
  4. ↑ Michael Reinsch: The horror is in the middle of the room. In: FAZ.net . April 12, 2011, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Website of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art
  6. ^ Joscha Weber: Geipel: "Doping of minors is a form of child abuse". In: www.bpb.de , August 16, 2013.
  7. ↑ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : "I have a disabled child" - GDR doping and its consequences. In: www.bpb.de , September 30, 2005.
  8. ^ Ines Geipel: Lost Games. Journal of a doping trial. Berlin 2001, p. 152.
  9. ↑ The process . In: Spiegel Online , July 18, 2000.
  10. ↑ Geipel demands a pension for GDR doping victims ( memento from February 20, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ). In: www.sportal.de, accessed on February 11, 2016.
  11. ↑ Due date May 5, 2006 - Ines Geipel forces removal from record list. In: www1.wdr.de , May 5, 2011, accessed on March 11, 2016.
  12. ↑ High honor for Ines Geipel. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , July 16, 2011.
  13. ↑ https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article185155480/Brutalitaet-der-DDR-In-was-fuer-einem-Land-lebe-ich-heute.html December 8th, 2018 Commentary in Die Welt
  14. ↑ Ines Geipel awarded "Golden Ribbon" . In: Berliner Morgenpost . November 15, 2017 ( archive.org [accessed July 6, 2020]).
  15. ↑ http://www.gazaopenletter.de/
  16. ↑ "The brutality of the East is being moderated more and more" , Die Wochenzeitung , October 31, 2019; "The East has not even started then."
  17. ↑ a b The widow's veto . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1996 ( online - also at planetlyrik.de ).
  18. ↑ a b c Peter Walther (Ed.): Muses and Graces in the Mark. A historical dictionary of writers . Lukas Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-931836-69-6 , entry "Müller, Inge", p. 158 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on March 11, 2019]): "With contributions to your work (including by Herta Müller, Adolf Endler, Reinhard Jirgl, Heiner Müller, Annett Gröschner and Wolf Biermann)"
  19. ↑ Wolf Biermann: Legend of Inge Müller's suicide in '66. In: taz.de . June 11, 1996. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  20. ↑ a b c Ines Geipel (Ed.): Somewhere; I want to see again . 1996, p. 351–353 , epilogue, follow-up comment ( planetlyrik.de , Google book search beginning / end [accessed on March 10, 2019]).
  21. ^ Peter Walther: The Ballad of Inge and Heiner. In: taz.de . June 11, 1996. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Reinhard Tschapke: Offended poet, offended widow. In: welt.de . July 30, 1996, accessed on March 11, 2019 : “Only weeks ago, the Aufbau-Verlag took a controversial Biermann ballad out of the almost finished volume under duress. A second Bard contribution remained against it. It is a letter that Wolf Biermann wrote to Torsten Heyme in 1988. "
  23. ↑ Rena Lehmann: Buried memory. Ines Müller as a remembering and un-remembered author . In: Journal of the SED State Research Association . tape 17 , no. 17 , 2005, ISSN  0948-9878 , p. 20–41 , here p. 31 f. ( Full text [PDF; 174 kB ]): “In 1996 the newspapers reacted with far more extensive reports than in 1985. […] She was now perceived as one of the most important post-war poets. […] Only six years after Ines Geipel's volume was published, Inge Müller's biography of Ines Geipel was published by Henschel Verlag. At about the same time, the Aufbau-Verlag brought another collection of texts [footnote: Inge Müller: That I don't choke on being quiet. Edited by Sonja Hilzinger. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2002.], which contains most of the author's texts that can be found in the estate. Since the appearance of the two extensive publications there can be no more talk of the "forgotten author". [...] Today it is part of the canon of German literature. "
  24. ↑ Ingeborg Gleichauf : Maybe I'll suddenly disappear. Collected texts by Inge Müller and the Inge Müller biography by Ines Geipel. In: literaturkritik.de . August 1, 2002, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  25. ^ Michael Bienert : The archive of suppressed literature. Dead mouth, but not forever . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 11, 2011 ( full text on text-der-stadt.de [accessed on March 18, 2019]).
  26. ↑ a b Katja Stopka: I. Geipel u. a .: Locked storage. In: H-Soz-Kult . May 31, 2016, accessed March 10, 2019 (review).
  27. ↑ Simone Neteler: The “Secret Library”. In: deutschlandfunk.de . July 1, 2005, accessed March 9, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Publications of the series The silent library . Federal foundation for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship , accessed on March 11, 2016.
  29. ↑ Ines Geipel. In: literaturtipps.de. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Martin Straub: Under the blanket of everyday life in the GDR. ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Thüringische Landeszeitung. June 3, 2009 (review).
  31. ↑ Sabine Brandt: Silenced. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 14, 2009.
  32. ↑ Review notes on censored, concealed, forgotten at perlentaucher.de
  33. ^ Geipel, Walther: Gesperrte Ablage , table of contents in the Google book search
  34. ↑ Geipel, Walther: Gesperrte Ablage , table of contents at the German National Library (PDF; 137 KiB)
  35. ↑ And what are you giving away? Ten writers share their Christmas secrets , here: Antje R. Strubel. In: welt.de , December 15, 2001, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  36. ↑ Review notes on Heimspiel at perlentaucher.de , accessed on March 17, 2019.
  37. ^ Doping and sports athletes. The pharmacological armament of the body. In: The Berlin literary criticism . September 18, 2008, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  38. ↑ Ines Geipel: No Limits . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, p. 87 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed March 13, 2019]).
  39. ↑ Review notes for Enough for today. Amok in Erfurt at perlentaucher.de (January / February 2004).
  40. ↑ Torsten Harmsen : " Enough for today": Ines Geipel's "literary non-fiction book" about the rampage at the Erfurt Gutenberg high school: Final rescue chaos. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 2, 2004.
  41. ^ Report of the Gutenberg High School Commission of the State of Thuringia, p. 292 f. Retrieved November 16, 2015 ( PDF ; 2.97 MB).
  42. ↑ Report of the Gutenberg High School Commission of the State of Thuringia, p. 338. Accessed on November 16, 2015 ( PDF ; 2.97 MB).
  43. ↑ Ines Geipel in conversation with Änne Seidel: Prevention of violence: “Differentiation between terror and amok ineffective”. Deutschlandfunk , July 24, 2016, accessed on July 24, 2016.
  44. ↑ a b c Alex Rühle: Glaciated . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 1, 2019.
  45. ↑ Ines Geipel: Contested Zone. My brother, the east and the hatred. Stuttgart 2019, p. 65.
  46. ↑ Ines Geipel: Contested Zone , p. 63.
  47. ↑ Ines Geipel: Contested Zone , p. 64.
  48. ↑ Cf. Ines Geipel: Contested Zone , p. 59.
  49. ↑ Ines Geipel: Contested Zone , p. 70 f.
  50. ↑ Udo Scheer: Ines Geipel: Lost games. Journal of a doping trial. In: Deutschlandfunk , April 23, 2001 (review).
  51. ↑ ARD audio game database. Inge Müller: Oh dear Augustin, how happy I am. German Broadcasting Archive , accessed on March 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Geipel, Ines
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Ines
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German leader and writer and professor at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden