Kathrin Menzinger
Kathrin Menzinger (born September 24, 1988 in Vienna ) is an Austrian dancer . The world champion WDSF Professional Division in the categories Show Dance Latin and Showdance standard was by the TV show 's Dancing Stars and Let's Dance known.
Life
Menzinger started with her brother Patrick at the age of six with the tournament dance sport and was able to win several Austrian school and youth championship titles in the Latin American dances by 2004 and represented Austria at a total of seven junior and youth world championships of the World Dance Sport Federation (WDSF). In 2002, at the age of 13, she was the youngest dancer to reach the final of the State Championship Latin in the general class and thus became the youngest member of the national team. In 2004 she won the Vice State Champion title in the combination of ten dances.
From 2004 she achieved international success with her new partner Vadim Garbuzov . In 2005 they were able to reach the final of the Youth World Cup with ten dances in Antwerp . The following year they succeeded in winning the Austrian state champion title in this discipline, and in 2006 they reached the semifinals of the World Cup in Moscow for more than ten dances . After a break due to injury in 2007 and 2008, she returned to her old dance successes in 2010 with 4th place at the European Cup in combination.
In 2012 she started in standard and latin with free-style or show dance and won the Austrian championship in this discipline in the same year, as well as in 2013. Even internationally, she reached the final in standard show dance in Beijing in 2012 when she first competed at a World Show Dance In 2013 she succeeded in the standard and latein discipline with 5th and 6th place, also at the WDSF Showdance World Championships in Beijing 2013. In the same year, the first WDSF World Dance Games took place in Kaoshiung , Taiwan. in which she took 4th and 5th place in the finals of the show dance competitions.
She became known throughout Austria in 2011 through her participation in the ORF production Dancing Stars , where she was Dieter Chmelar's professional partner . In summer 2011, she and her partner took part in the Starnacht am Wörthersee, also produced by ORF, as a show act. Also in 2012 she was part of the team of professional dancers from Dancing Stars , where she formed a dance couple with the Austrian actor David Heissig and reached the 4th round. In that year she also began her choreography work at the Filmhof Wein4tel in Asparn an der Zaya and in the Vienna Metropol , together with her dance partner Vadim Garbuzov she drew for the choreography for the musical The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Vicky Schubert , based loosely on Shakespeare , responsible.
From 2012 to 2016 she was employed as an army athlete in the Austrian Armed Forces in the federal sports center in Südstadt.
Back in 2013 as a professional dancer at Dancing Stars , she and her celebrity partner, the musical star Lukas Perman, made it to the finals this year , where they took 3rd place. In summer 2013 she was responsible for the choreography of the world premiere of the musical Der Hofnarr (based on the Danny Kaye film The Court Jester ) for the Wiener Metropol and the Filmhof Wein4tel. At the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2014 , she danced with Garbuzov in the Wiener Musikverein in the worldwide ORF broadcast a Viennese waltz to On the beautiful blue Danube according to her own choreography.
In 2014, she and ex-ski jumper and World Cup winner Hubert Neuper took third place in the 9th season of Dancing Stars, as in the previous year. At the European Championships in the Showdance Standard of the WDSF in Vienna City Hall, she and her dance partner Garbuzov won the Vice European Championship title for Austria, followed in October by the Vice World Championship title in Latin Show Dance. At the beginning of November she won her first international title with the gold medal at the European Championships in Latin Showdance in Dresden , followed by her second Vice World Champion title, this time in the Showdance Standard Section.
In 2015 she took part in the RTL show Let's Dance for the first time as a professional dancer and was able to become Dancing Star 2015 together with her dance partner, the former soccer player Hans Sarpei . In June she became world champion of the WDSF Professional Division in the Latin Show Dance category together with Vadim Garbuzov. In November Menzinger and Garbuzov became world champions again at the World Championships for Professionals in Showdance Standard.
In 2016 Menzinger joined Let's Dance again , but dropped out with Ulrich Potofski in the first round. In the third episode, the couple moved back into the show due to Franziska Traub's injury-related departure and left in episode nine. On May 8, she and her partner Garbuzov won the European Dance Award in Baden-Baden , an event at which the best show act of the year is honored every year across all genres. In June, he won the European Championship in Showdance Standard in Vienna, followed by the European Championship in Showdance Latin in September in Sibiu , Romania . In November, the couple received the 3rd world title, this time in show dance Latin.
In 2017 she took part in Let's Dance again, this time with the lower-leg amputee Paralympics winner Heinrich Popow . She reached Show 9 with him, then he had to retire due to injury. On April 9, 2017, she defended her world title in Latin Showdance at the Vienna Dance Concourse, and on December 9, 2017, she won her 5th world title, again in the Showdance Standard in the Multiversum in Schwechat. In 2018 she danced in Let's Dance with Heiko Lochmann in twelfth place, in 2019 with Thomas Rath in eleventh place. In 2020 she danced herself with Tijan Njie in 4th place.
In 2019 she was part of the cast of the first Let's Dance Live tour, with which she toured 16 German city dwellers.
Together with her parents she runs the doubledance studio in Franzensdorf in Lower Austria . She was in a relationship with her dance partner Vadim Garbuzov until 2015, and has had a relationship with Max Boas since at least 2019.
- Kathrin Menzinger at Let's Dance
| Season (year) | partner | placement |
|---|---|---|
| 8 (2015) | Hans Sarpei | 1. |
| 9 (2016) | Ulli Potofski | 6th |
| 10 (2017) | Heinrich Popow | 6th |
| 11 (2018) | Heiko Lochmann | 12. |
| 12 (2019) | Thomas Rath | 11. |
| 13 (2020) | Tijan Njie | 4th |
successes
- Three-time Austrian master student in Latin 1999–2002
- Three times Austrian Junior Champion Latin, Standard 2004-2005
- Youth World Cup finalist combination 2005
- Austrian national champion in combined 2006
- Austrian Vice State Champion in the combined 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
- Austrian Vice State Champion Standard 2012, 2013
- Finalist of the Austrian State Championships Combination 2002, 2003
- Finalist of the Austrian State Championships Latin 2002, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Finalist of the Austrian State Championships Standard 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- World Cup semi-finalist in the combined 2006
- Three wins at WDSF world ranking tournaments 2005–2010
- Fourth place at the European Cup in the 2010 combination
- Austrian champion in freestyle dance 2012, 2013
- World Cup finalist Showdance Latin 2012, 2013
- World Cup finalist Showdance Standard 2013
- Fourth and fifth place in the final of the WorldDanceSportGames Kaoshiung 2013 in Showdance Standard and Latin
- Victory in the Viennese waltz competition as part of the AOC
- Fourth place in the Showdance Standard World Championships, Professional Division 2013
- Vice-European Champion at the EM in Show Dance Standard, Professional Division 2014
- European champion at the EM in Latin Show Dance, Professional Division 2014
- Vice-World Champion at the 2014 World Cup Showdance Latin
- Vice-world champion WM Showdance Standard 2014
- Let's Dance Winner 2015 (with Hans Sarpei )
- World Champion Showdance Latin 2015
- World Champion Showdance Standard 2015
- European Champion Showdance Standard 2016
- European Champion Showdance Latin 2016
- World Champion Showdance Latin 2016
- World Champion Showdance Latin 2017
- World Champion Showdance Standard 2017
- Vice World Champion Showdance Latin 2018, WDC
- Vice World Champion Showdance Standard 2019, WDC
Web links
- Kathrin Menzinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of Kathrin Menzinger
- Austrian Dance Sports Association
- World Dance Sport Federation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tanzsportverband: Meister ; accessed on January 25, 2012.
- ↑ “New Year's Concert 2014” live on ORF: Michael Beyer stages the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Ballet . APA notification dated December 10, 2013, accessed on January 5, 2015.
- ↑ a b orf.at - Gabuzov / Menzinger are show dance world champions . Article dated June 8, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015
- ↑ a b orf.at - Menzinger / Garbuzov again world champions . Article dated November 23, 2015, accessed November 23, 2015.
- ↑ Seitenblicke.at: Menzinger and Garbuzov: Separation! ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved July 22, 2015
- ↑ New friend: "Let's Dance" -Kathrin posts first kiss photo , promiflash.de from December 25, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2020
- ↑ orf.at - Garbuzov / Menzinger win again World Cup gold . Article dated November 21, 2016, accessed November 21, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menzinger, Kathrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |