Sabine Utheß

Sabine Utheß (born Sachs; born July 1, 1946 in Eisenach ) is a German foreign language teacher and textbook author for German lessons and European champion in shot put in disabled sports .

Life and career

As a student, Utheß became a junior GDR champion in athletics and attended the Erfurt children's and youth sports school from the 10th grade up to the Abitur. Then she studied Slavic and German to become a teacher, partly in Voronezh (Russia). She then began research studies in Russian methodology at the Erfurt University of Education up to her doctorate, and then worked for several years at school as a Russian and German teacher. In 1970 she went to the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR (APW) in Berlin and did research in the field of foreign language didactics, completed her habilitation in 1978 and was director of the Institute for Foreign Language Teaching from 1980 to 1990 . She supervised 24 aspirants for promotion and six researchers for Habilitation .

After the APW was dissolved, she started working as an editor at Ernst-Klett-Verlag in 1991 and published textbooks for Russian, German as a foreign language and German ( Deutsch kombi plus ). In addition, she was on the executive board of several creativity schools in Berlin.

After she had in 1997 lost by an accident left arm, she began regular training in disabled sports , reached a place in track and field team (shot put, discus, javelin) and took the shot put women in 2000 at the Paralympics in Sydney and 2004 in Athens . At the IPC European Athletics Championships in Assen 2003 she was also European Champion in the starting class F46 .

Sabine Utheß was married to Herbert Utheß (1925–2000), who also worked at the APW.

Web links

• Author portrait GRIN https://www.grin.com/user/1778562

Single receipts

1. ↑ Paralympics. In: Berliner Tagesspiegel. October 18, 2000, accessed July 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Results of the EM Assen. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .