Miss Germany
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Miss Germany is the title of a national beauty contest for women in Germany that has been held since 1927 .
history
There have been several organizations in the past that have claimed the title. As early as the 1920s, a German court ruled that the title "Miss Germany" could not be protected, so that everyone could organize a competition and name the winner that way. A similar decision was made in 1982 when the event manager Reindl sued it unsuccessfully. In 1928, 1931, 1953, 1982 and 1983 there were two titleholders who had been chosen by different organizers. In the 1950s, however, Feinstrumpfwerke Opal, as the main sponsor of an organizer , secured the international licenses for Miss Europe , Miss World and Miss Universe, and thus virtually a monopoly. Competitive competitions became unattractive because other organizers could not send their winners to international competitions. The choice of Heidi Krüger by the Hamburger Morgenpost thus remained an exception for a long time.
Opal's bankruptcy was followed by a period of decline. The generation of 68 and the women's movement protested against the "meat inspection" and public interest decreased. It was not until the late 1970s that financially strong organizers found themselves again, as the international licenses held by Opal had become free. In 1979, a Miss Germany was chosen for the first time live on German television in Rudi Carrell's show Amlauf Band . The organizer was MGC - Miss Germany Corporation Klemmer GmbH & Co KG, owned by Horst Klemmer from Oldenburg, who presented the eliminations in the 1960s. MGC sent the winners to the Miss World and Queen of the World competitions.
In 1982, Klemmer's son Ralf took over the MGC business, but was initially unable to claim protection for the title due to the Reindl trial, so that for the first time a competitive competition took place again. From 1985 to 1999, several organizations held competing competitions. The Miss Germany Company organized corresponding competitions from 1985 to 1991. It temporarily held the international concessions for Miss World , Miss Universe , Miss Europe and Miss International , so that it was able to send winners and finalists to these competitions. "Miss Europe 1991" Susanne Petry emerged from it, but the company went bankrupt in 1992 .
In 1989 the MGA Miss Germany Association GmbH organized by Detlef Tursies from Bergheim near Cologne, his first Miss Germany election. Their winners took part in elections for Miss Universe , Miss Europe and Miss Intercontinental . In 1999 insolvency proceedings were opened for this company, while a third Miss Germany appeared with Yvonne Wölke from Berlin and in autumn 1999 the Model of Germany Productions in Wiesbaden was named "Miss Germany No. 4". From 2000, Tursies switched to the title Miss Germany with a new company , as did a number of other organizers.
The reason for this development was that in 1999 MGC succeeded in registering the designation "Miss Germany" as a brand throughout Europe with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market , thus securing the sole rights to the corresponding company names and competitions. In 2007 MGV was also able to register titles for all 16 federal states ("Miss Baden-Württemberg, Miss Bavaria" etc.) and five regions ("Miss Central, North, East Germany" etc.) as European trademarks.
The founder's grandson has also been working for MGC since 2014 with Max Klemmer, in 2016 he took over the company's shares and began to develop the organization of the events beyond the simple beauty contest .
Winners
No contest elections were held during the Nazi regime . The Nazi government defamed them as “ Jewish-Bolshevik decadence” and instead propagated the election of (local) harvest, heather and wine queens. It forbade Charlotte Hartmann, who was elected immediately before, to participate in the Miss Europe election in Madrid. This nevertheless drove there secretly. The sophisticated and glamorous type of woman who dominated the national and international contest did not correspond at all to the National Socialist blood-and-soil ideology . The rulers complained that it did not embody the people, but only an urban elite that hardly differed from one another internationally. On the occasion of the Miss Europe election of 1933, the co-ordinated Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (1933, No. 24) polemicized against the fact that none of the candidates could be seen which country or people they represented. By winning the title of the Russian exiled Tatiana Marlow, the racial ideologues should have felt confirmed in their decision not to allow any more German participants to take part in international contests. As a substitute, the Saar area , which is under the administration of the League of Nations , elected a Miss until 1935, who was allowed to drive to the international competitions.
In the GDR , too , miss elections were frowned upon as “the humiliation and exploitation of women by capitalism”. At the end of the 1980s, however, there were events in East Berlin that were disguised as cultural evenings. The winners received a cake as a prize. The first contest took place with a large number of GDR celebrities from film, television, music and sports. It was monitored suspiciously by the organs of the state security, but nevertheless tolerated. In 1987, on the occasion of the city's 750th anniversary celebrations, a Miss East Berlin called Miss Berlin was allowed to parade past SED General Secretary Erich Honecker . Even GDR television reported about it. This was followed by Miss Spring , Miss Summer and, in February 1990, in the open Berlin, a Miss Berlin / GDR election that received a lot of attention from the media , from which Susanne Körbs emerged as the winner. Some of these events were organized by various cultural institutions. At the end of 1990 the MGC (see above) carried out the first and only official election for Miss GDR. A few months later, the winner Leticia Koffke became the first all-German Miss Germany.
In some years there was no national miss election; the German representative for international competitions was then chosen from among the regional winners without a final, for example in the years 1972 to 1978. In 1971 Irene Neumann's term of office was even extended by one year.
Miss Germany before World War II
Miss Germany 1927 to 1933 | ||
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year | Surname | Place of choice |
1927 | Hildegard Kwandt | Berlin , Sports Palace |
1928 |
Hella Hoffmann Margarete Grow |
Berlin |
1929 | Elisabeth Rodzyn | Berlin, Ballhaus Kroll |
1930 | Dorit Nitykowski (1) | Berlin, Hotel Kaiserhof |
1931 |
Ruth Ingrid Richard , Daisy d'Ora (2) |
Berlin, Hotel Kaiserhof Berlin, Hotel Eden |
1932 | Liselotte de Booy-Schulze (3) | Berlin |
1933 | Charlotte Hartmann | Berlin |
- Remarks
- (1) Dorit Nitykowski married a few months later and had to return her title. It is not known whether a by-election took place to replace the runner-up, Ruth Ingrid Richard , or whether the office remained vacant.
- (2) Daisy d'Ora was a pseudonym; the participant was actually called Daisy Baronesse von Freyberg .
- (3) The original winner from 1932 had to give back her title due to rumors of postponing the election. Liselotte de Booy-Schulze was chosen in a by-election.
- The candidate for Miss Europe 1934 was Emma Kant from Germany , who not only claimed to be "Miss Germany", but also to be a great niece of the philosopher Immanuel Kant . How and where they qualified is not documented.
- In 1935 Elisabeth Pitz from Saarbrücken took part in the Miss Europe election as the German representative . But she was not Miss Germany, but had already won the title of Miss France in the same year and returned it two hours later after tumultuous protests by the mothers of her competitors.
Miss Germany 1949 to 1984
Miss Germany 1949 to 1984: various organizers | ||||
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year | Surname | Qualified as | Place of choice | organizer |
1949 | Inge Löwenstein | ? | Bad Homburg , Helipa cinema | Ronke |
1950 | Susanne Erichsen |
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Baden-Baden , Kurhaus | Koebner |
1951 | Vera Marks | ? | Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | Koebner |
1952 | Renate Hoy | ? | Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | star |
1953 | Christel Schaack |
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Wiesbaden, Kurhaus | opal |
1953/54 | Heidi Kruger | ? | Hamburg , Ernst-Merck-Halle | MoPo |
1954 | Regina Ernst |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1955 | Margit Nünke |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1956 | Marina Orschel |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1957 | Gerti Daub |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1958 | Marlies Behrens |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1959 | Carmela Künzel |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1960 | Ingrun Helgard Möckel |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1961 | Marlene Schmidt |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | opal |
1962 | Gisela Karschuck |
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Travemünde , Kurhaus | opal |
1963 | Helga Carla Ziesemer |
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Travemünde, Kurhaus | opal |
1964 | Martina Kettler |
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Berlin, Hotel Hilton | opal |
1965 | Ingrid Bethke |
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Berlin, Hotel Hilton | opal |
1966 | Marion Heinrich |
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Berlin, Hotel Hilton | opal |
1967 | Fairy from Zitzewitz |
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Berlin, Hotel Hilton | opal |
1968 | Lilian Atterer |
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Munich , Bayerischer Hof | opal |
1969 | Gesine Froese |
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Munich, Bayerischer Hof | opal |
1970 | Irene Neumann | ? | San Juan ( Puerto Rico ), Hilton Hotel | opal |
1971 | Irene Neumann | - | Term of office extended without election | opal |
1972 | Heidi Weber |
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appointed without choice | opal |
1973 | Ingeborg Martin | ? | Munich, Bayerischer Hof | Beierlein |
1974 | Monja Bageritz |
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appointed without choice | Beierlein |
1975 | Marina Langner | ? | appointed without choice | ? |
1976 | Monika Schneeweis | (without area code) | Baden-Baden, Brenner's Park Hotel | Cosmetics |
1977 | Dagmar Winkler |
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Baden-Baden, Kurhaus | ? |
1978 | Monika Greis |
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appointed without choice | Winkler |
1979 | Andrea Hontschik |
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Bremen , Studio Radio Bremen | Reindl |
1980 | Gabriella Brum |
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Berlin, ICC | Reindl |
1981 | Marion Kurz |
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Munich, Hotel Hilton | Reindl |
1982 | Kerstin Paeserack |
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Palma de Mallorca ( Spain ), Casino de Mallorca | Reindl |
1982 | Monika Baier | ? | Nuremberg , Meistersingerhalle | Rebensburg |
1983 | Angela Michel |
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Augsburg , Hotel Drei Mohren | Rebensburg |
1983 | Loana Radecki |
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Badgastein ( Austria ), Grand-Hotel de l'Europe | Reindl |
1984 | Brigitte Berx |
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Bad Mondorf ( Luxembourg ), Casino 2000 | Reindl |
- Remarks
The organizers from 1949 to 1984 | |
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short form | Companies |
Ronke | Karl Heinz Ronke / German Fashion Show Society |
Koebner | Franz W. Koebner / fashion magazine Elegante Welt |
star | a consortium of: Illustrated Stern , Universal Film Studios , Pan American Airways |
opal | Opal stocking factory in Hamburg; after its bankruptcy in 1962, one of the two former owners, Heinz Schaffer, who still owned the trademark and license rights |
MoPo | Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper |
Beierlein | Hans R. Beierlein , music manager |
Cosmetics | a British cosmetics group (Margaret Astor?) |
Winkler | Dagmar Winkler , Miss Germany 1977 |
Reindl | Erich Reindl, Austrian event manager |
Rebensburg | Mannequin studio “International” Evelyn G. Rebensburg, Nuremberg |
Miss Germany from 1985: Miss Germany Corporation
Miss Germany: Miss Germany Corporation | |||
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year | Surname | Qualified as | Place of choice |
1985/86 | Patricia Patek |
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Wangerooge , Kurhaus |
1986/87 | Anja Hörnich |
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Oberstdorf , Congress Center |
1987/88 | Susann Stoss |
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Bonn-Bad Godesberg , town hall |
1988/89 | Nicole Reinhardt |
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Cologne , Hyatt Regency Hotel |
1989/90 | Claudia Weins |
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Schwäbisch Gmünd , city garden |
1990/91 | Leticia Koffke |
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Wesseling near Cologne, discotheque M |
1991/92 | Ines Cuba |
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Oldenburg , Weser-Ems-Halle |
1992/93 | Astrid Kuhlmann |
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Berlin, ZDF studio |
1993/94 | Cornelia Oehlmann |
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Hanover , Maritim Airport Hotel |
1994/95 | Beate Almer |
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Cologne, Maritim Hotel |
1996 | Yasemin Mansoor |
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Berlin, Friedrichstadtpalast |
1997 | Sabrina paradise |
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Berlin, Friedrichstadtpalast |
1998 | Michalina Koscielniak |
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Berlin, Space Dream Musical Theater |
1999 | Alexandra Philipps |
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Berlin, Hotel Estrel , Estrel Festival Center |
2000 | Sandra Hoffmann |
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Berlin, Hotel Estrel, Estrel Convention Center |
2001 | Mirjana Bogojevic |
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Berlin, Hotel Estrel, Estrel Convention Center |
2002 | Katrin Wrobel |
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Berlin, Hotel Estrel, Estrel Convention Center |
2003 | Babett Konau |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau ), Europa-Park |
2004 | Claudia Hein |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2005 | Antonia Schmitz |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2006 | Isabelle Knispel |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2007 | Nelly Marie Bojahr |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2008 | Kim-Valerie Voigt |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2009 | Doris Schmidts |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2010 | Anne Julia Hagen |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2011 | Anne-Kathrin Kosch |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2012 | Isabel Gülck |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2013 | Caroline Noeding |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2014 | Vivien Konca |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2015 | Olga Hoffmann |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2016 | Lena Bröder |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2017 | Soraya Kohlmann |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2018 | Anahita Rehbein |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2019 | Nadine Berneis |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
2020 | Leonie von Hase |
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Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park |
- The competition is organized by MGC - Miss Germany Corporation Klemmer GmbH & Co KG , based in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) .
Miss Germany 1985–1992: Miss Germany Company
Miss Germany: Miss Germany Company | |||
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year | Surname | Qualified as | Place of choice |
1985 | Anke Symkowitz |
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Baden-Baden , Kurhaus |
1986 | Birgit Jahn |
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Darmstadt , Hotel Maritim |
1986/87 | Dagmar Schulz |
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Munich , Bayerischer Hof |
1987/88 | Christiane Kopp |
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Düsseldorf , Hilton Hotel |
1988/89 | Andrea Stelzer |
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Hamburg , Plaza Hotel |
1989/90 | Christiane Stocker |
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? |
1990/91 | Susanne Petry |
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East Berlin |
1991/92 | Monika Resch |
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cottbus |
- The Miss Germany Company went bankrupt in 1992.
- In the (officially named) double years like 1986/87, the election took place at the end of the first year mentioned.
Miss Germany 1989–1999: MGA
Miss Germany: Miss Germany Association | |||
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year | Surname | Qualified as | Place of choice |
1989/90 | Marion Winz |
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Kaarst , Open Air Tennis Park & Hotel |
1991 | Petra Hack |
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Bielefeld , KU |
1992 | Diana Leisgen |
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Dresden , Sachs Center |
Meike Black |
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1993 | Verona fieldbusch |
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Bremen, show park |
1994 | Tanja Wild |
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Chemnitz , town hall |
1995 | Ilka Endres |
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Trier , Riverside Center |
1996 | Miriam Ruppert |
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Trier, Riverside Center |
1997 | Nadine Schmidt |
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Trier, Riverside Center |
1998 | Katharina Mainka |
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Trier, Riverside Center |
1999 | Diana Drubig |
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Trier, Riverside |
- The original 1992 winner, Diana Leisgen, was disqualified for flimsy reasons after she refused to submit to the demands of the MGA. The runner-up, Meike Schwarz, took her place.
- The elections were organized by the MGA - Miss Germany Association GmbH by Detlef Tursies, based in Bergheim near Cologne. The MGA went bankrupt in 1999.
Miss Germany 1999/2000: other organizations
Miss Germany 1999/2000: different organizations | |||
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year | Surname | Place of choice | organizer |
1999 | Yvonne Woelke | Berlin, Big Eden discotheque | Rolf Eden |
2000 | Sonja Strobl | Wiesbaden , Euro Palace disco | Model of Germany Productions |
- Yvonne Woelke ran again in 2002 - as Miss Berlin in the Miss Germany election.
- Competition and title of Model of United Productions had later due to a warning of the MGC in Model of Germany will be renamed (see below).
See also
literature
- Veit Didczuneit, Dirk Külow: Miss Germany. The German beauty queen. S & L MedienContor, Hamburg, 1998; ISBN 3-931962-94-6
- About the Miss Germany Company: Entry on jimmyspageantpage.com ( Memento from July 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive on archive.org, as of July 17, 2008 (English)
- Former website of the MGA - Miss Germany Association: www.missgermany.cmsonline.de
- To Elisabeth Pitz: Beeld no. 44795
- Regarding the German participants in international competitions: Pageantopolis (English) - there see under the individual competitions
Web links
- MG web presence
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Julia Kopatzki: Swimwear? Abolished! In: The time . No. 8 , February 13, 2020, p. 68/69 .
- ↑ Julia Anton: "I don't need a dress to express my femininity". FAZ , February 16, 2020, accessed on February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Pilar Baumeister: "Until tomorrow" In: BoD , Norderstedt, 2015, p. 13.
- ↑ Time Magazine, September 3, 1934.
- ↑ spiegel.tv. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .