Miss Germany

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Hildegard Kwandt as the first Miss Germany, 1927

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
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
year Surname Qualified as Place of choice organizer
1949 Inge Löwenstein ? Bad Homburg , Helipa cinema Ronke
1950 Susanne Erichsen Schleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-Holstein Miss Schleswig-Holstein Baden-Baden , Kurhaus Koebner
1951 Vera Marks ? Baden-Baden, Kurhaus Koebner
1952 Renate Hoy ? Baden-Baden, Kurhaus star
1953 Christel Schaack BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Wiesbaden, Kurhaus opal
1953/54 Heidi Kruger ? Hamburg , Ernst-Merck-Halle MoPo
1954 Regina Ernst Red flag.svg Miss Northwest Germany Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1955 Margit Nünke North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1956 Marina Orschel BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1957 Gerti Daub HamburgHamburg Miss Hamburg Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1958 Marlies Behrens BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1959 Carmela Künzel BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1960 Ingrun Helgard Möckel Flag of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1826-1911) .svg Miss Rhineland Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1961 Marlene Schmidt Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Baden-Baden, Kurhaus opal
1962 Gisela Karschuck Lower SaxonyLower Saxony Miss Lower Saxony Travemünde , Kurhaus opal
1963 Helga Carla Ziesemer BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Travemünde, Kurhaus opal
1964 Martina Kettler BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Berlin, Hotel Hilton opal
1965 Ingrid Bethke North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Berlin, Hotel Hilton opal
1966 Marion Heinrich North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Berlin, Hotel Hilton opal
1967 Fairy from Zitzewitz Schleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-Holstein Miss Schleswig-Holstein Berlin, Hotel Hilton opal
1968 Lilian Atterer BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Munich , Bayerischer Hof opal
1969 Gesine Froese BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria 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 BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria appointed without choice opal
1973 Ingeborg Martin ? Munich, Bayerischer Hof Beierlein
1974 Monja Bageritz Flag of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1826-1911) .svg Miss Rhineland 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 BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Baden-Baden, Kurhaus ?
1978 Monika Greis Red flag.svg Miss Southern Germany appointed without choice Winkler
1979 Andrea Hontschik BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Bremen , Studio Radio Bremen Reindl
1980 Gabriella Brum BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Berlin, ICC Reindl
1981 Marion Kurz BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Munich, Hotel Hilton Reindl
1982 Kerstin Paeserack Lower SaxonyLower Saxony Miss Lower Saxony Palma de Mallorca ( Spain ), Casino de Mallorca Reindl
1982 Monika Baier ? Nuremberg , Meistersingerhalle Rebensburg
1983 Angela Michel Flag of Franconia.svg Miss Franconia Augsburg , Hotel Drei Mohren Rebensburg
1983 Loana Radecki BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Badgastein ( Austria ), Grand-Hotel de l'Europe Reindl
1984 Brigitte Berx North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Bad Mondorf ( Luxembourg ), Casino 2000 Reindl
Remarks
The organizers from 1949 to 1984
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
year Surname Qualified as Place of choice
1985/86 Patricia Patek HesseHesse Miss Hessen Wangerooge , Kurhaus
1986/87 Anja Hörnich SaarlandSaarland Miss Saarland Oberstdorf , Congress Center
1987/88 Susann Stoss Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate Miss Rhineland-Palatinate Bonn-Bad Godesberg , town hall
1988/89 Nicole Reinhardt Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Cologne , Hyatt Regency Hotel
1989/90 Claudia Weins North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Schwäbisch Gmünd , city garden
1990/91 Leticia Koffke BrandenburgBrandenburg Miss Brandenburg Wesseling near Cologne, discotheque M
1991/92 Ines Cuba BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Oldenburg , Weser-Ems-Halle
1992/93 Astrid Kuhlmann BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Berlin, ZDF studio
1993/94 Cornelia Oehlmann Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Hanover , Maritim Airport Hotel
1994/95 Beate Almer BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Cologne, Maritim Hotel
1996 Yasemin Mansoor BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Berlin, Friedrichstadtpalast
1997 Sabrina paradise Red flag.svg Miss Northern Germany Berlin, Friedrichstadtpalast
1998 Michalina Koscielniak Black flag.svg Miss LR cosmetics Berlin, Space Dream Musical Theater
1999 Alexandra Philipps Red flag.svg Miss Southern Germany Berlin, Hotel Estrel , Estrel Festival Center
2000 Sandra Hoffmann Red flag.svg Miss Central Germany Berlin, Hotel Estrel, Estrel Convention Center
2001 Mirjana Bogojevic HamburgHamburg Miss Hamburg Berlin, Hotel Estrel, Estrel Convention Center
2002 Katrin Wrobel BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Berlin, Hotel Estrel, Estrel Convention Center
2003 Babett Konau Schleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-Holstein Miss Schleswig-Holstein Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau ), Europa-Park
2004 Claudia Hein North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2005 Antonia Schmitz North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2006 Isabelle Knispel BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2007 Nelly Marie Bojahr Black flag.svg Miss T-Online Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2008 Kim-Valerie Voigt Red flag.svg Miss Northern Germany Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2009 Doris Schmidts Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2010 Anne Julia Hagen BerlinBerlin'Miss Berlin Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2011 Anne-Kathrin Kosch ThuringiaThuringia Miss Thuringia Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2012 Isabel Gülck Black flag.svg Miss Ashampoo Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2013 Caroline Noeding Lower SaxonyLower Saxony Miss Lower Saxony Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2014 Vivien Konca North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2015 Olga Hoffmann Black flag.svg Miss Pearl.tv Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2016 Lena Bröder Red flag.svg Miss West Germany Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2017 Soraya Kohlmann SaxonySaxony Miss Saxony Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2018 Anahita Rehbein Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2019 Nadine Berneis Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Rust (near Freiburg im Breisgau), Europa-Park
2020 Leonie von Hase Schleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-Holstein Miss Schleswig-Holstein 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
year Surname Qualified as Place of choice
1985 Anke Symkowitz Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Baden-Baden , Kurhaus
1986 Birgit Jahn BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Darmstadt , Hotel Maritim
1986/87 Dagmar Schulz North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Munich , Bayerischer Hof
1987/88 Christiane Kopp BerlinBerlin Miss Berlin Düsseldorf , Hilton Hotel
1988/89 Andrea Stelzer BavariaBavaria Miss Bavaria Hamburg , Plaza Hotel
1989/90 Christiane Stocker HesseHesse Miss Hessen ?
1990/91 Susanne Petry SaarlandSaarland Miss Saarland East Berlin
1991/92 Monika Resch ThuringiaThuringia Miss Thuringia 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
year Surname Qualified as Place of choice
1989/90 Marion Winz North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Kaarst , Open Air Tennis Park & ​​Hotel
1991 Petra Hack North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Bielefeld , KU
1992 Diana Leisgen North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia Miss North Rhine-Westphalia Dresden , Sachs Center
Meike Black SaarlandSaarland Miss Saarland
1993 Verona fieldbusch HamburgHamburg Miss Hamburg Bremen, show park
1994 Tanja Wild Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Miss Baden-Württemberg Chemnitz , town hall
1995 Ilka Endres Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate Miss Rhineland-Palatinate Trier , Riverside Center
1996 Miriam Ruppert Black flag.svg Miss Arabella TV Trier, Riverside Center
1997 Nadine Schmidt Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate Miss Rhineland-Palatinate Trier, Riverside Center
1998 Katharina Mainka Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate Miss Rhineland-Palatinate Trier, Riverside Center
1999 Diana Drubig SaxonySaxony Miss Saxony 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
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

Web links

Commons : Miss Germany  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • MG web presence

Individual evidence

  1. a b Julia Kopatzki: Swimwear? Abolished! In: The time . No. 8 , February 13, 2020, p. 68/69 .
  2. Julia Anton: "I don't need a dress to express my femininity". FAZ , February 16, 2020, accessed on February 19, 2020 .
  3. a b Pilar Baumeister: "Until tomorrow" In: BoD , Norderstedt, 2015, p. 13.
  4. Time Magazine, September 3, 1934.
  5. spiegel.tv. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .