Jutta Müller (figure skater)
Jutta Müller , b. Lötzsch (born December 13, 1928 in Chemnitz ) is a former German figure skater who was best known as a trainer of successful figure skaters. Her protégés won a total of three Olympic gold medals, ten world, 18 European and 42 GDR championship titles.
Life
family
Jutta Müller's parents were Marie Lötzsch geb. Prusky and Emil Lötzsch, 1930 Saxon champions in wrestling.
From her first marriage to Wolfgang Seyfert , Jutta Müller has a daughter, Gabriele Seyfert . In her second marriage, she was married to Bringfried Müller , a former GDR national football player, until his death .
Career
After the Second World War , Jutta Müller first became a teacher of German, music, arithmetic and sports. In 1946 she joined the SED .
During her active time she was looked after by Charlotte Giebelmann . In 1949 she became GDR champion in pair skating with Irene Salzmann (as a result of the war there were no male partners). In the individual run, she mostly had to admit defeat to Inge Wischnewski at the GDR championships . Under the name Jutta Seyfert she reached third place in 1953; in the same year she became the GDR runner-up in roller figure skating .
From 1954 Jutta Müller studied at the DHfK Leipzig . In 1955, she began her career as a figure skating coach at SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt . In the following decades she became one of the most successful trainers in the world. She first led her daughter Gabriele Seyfert to two world championship titles in 1969 and 1970. Then she trained Günter Zöller , Jan Hoffmann , Sonja Morgenstern , Marion Weber , Anett Pötzsch , Constanze Gensel , Katarina Witt , Simone Lang , Evelyn Großmann and Ronny Winkler .
Awards
Jutta Müller received numerous awards in the GDR. In 1980 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold and in 1988 the Karl Marx Order . In 1984 she received the honorary title Hero of Labor .
She was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004 for her services to figure skating .
On December 12, 2008, the day before her 80th birthday, Jutta Müller was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Chemnitz. A lawsuit against the award had previously failed. A former Chemnitz resident living in Vienna had sued against the award because of the GDR past. The administrative court in Chemnitz rejected the lawsuit as unfounded.
On the occasion of her 90th birthday in 2018, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk honored the figure skating coach with the film The Ice Queen from Chemnitz - an evening for Jutta Müller .
literature
- Manfred Hönel (Ed.): Jutta Müller. The most beautiful sport in the world. A figure skating coach remembers . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01949-3
- Short biography for: Müller, Jutta . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jutta Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 22, 1980, p. 2
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 26, 1988, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 27, 1984, p. 3
- ^ Manfred Hönel: Jutta Müller. The most beautiful sport in the world. A figure skating coach remembers . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01949-3 , pp. 207 .
- ↑ Legendary coach Jutta Müller turns 80 Lausitzer Rundschau , December 13, 2008.
- ↑ Honoring with a film on the occasion of his 90th birthday , accessed on December 16, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Jutta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lötzsch, Jutta (maiden name); Seyfert, Jutta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German figure skater, figure skating trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |