Sigrid Lude

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Sigrid Lude (* around 1935) is a German former world champion in typing and non-fiction author .

Life

Due to the events of the war, Sigrid Lude only had a minimal school education. In addition to simple office work, she trained to become a state-certified teacher for shorthand and typing . At the age of sixteen she was a Southwest German junior typist in typing; In 1963 she became world champion for the first time in Prague , followed by titles in 1965 in Paris , 1967 in Bern and 1969 in Warsaw , where she achieved her fourth world championship on an IBM machine in 30-minute fast typing with 716 characters per minute. As early as 1963, thanks to her success, she became an advertising medium for IBM typewriters.

She received numerous honors and also appeared in the television program Zum Blaue Bock . Sigrid Lude has written several specialist books, worked as a state-certified business correspondent in French, English, and Spanish and still carries out keyboard training on the PC in Esslingen am Neckar .

Works (selection)

  • The new computer writing with WORD 6.0 for WINDOWS. Winkler 1997, ISBN 3-804-57079-8 .
  • PC tip: the exercise book for faster computer writing , Winkler 1993, ISBN 3-804-57097-6 .
  • The new computer writing with MS-WORD 5.5. Winkler 1994, ISBN 3-804-57096-8 .
  • The special training for safe and fast typing: a way to top performance in typing. Winkler 1990, ISBN 3-804-57228-6 .
  • The new computer writing with WORD 97. Winkler 1988, ISBN 3-804-57077-1
  • Bayreuther Blätter, Archive for Stenography, Word Processing, Information Technology - 2010 No. 13: Sigrid Lude: Special training for safe and fast computer writing. A path to top performance in tactile writing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Typing Championships 1955 – now. In: http://typewriters.ch . Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Mayer: Grundig: Enriching everyday life with a “toy” kit. In: nordbayern.de. Retrieved January 2, 2016 . Quote: "Typewriters were added after Adler-Werke was acquired, and Lore Alt (left) and Sigrid Lude won the World Writing Championship on one of the devices."
  3. ↑ Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan . Pakistan Herald Publications, July 1963, p. 43.
  4. ^ Baden-Württemberg . Baden-Württemberg Publishing House, 1965, p. 46.
  5. ↑ 1967-Bern.pdf. In: zav.cz. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
  6. ↑ 50 years of Intersteno
  7. ^ Gregor Keller: 50 years of Intersteno. June 12, 2004, accessed January 2, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Zurich University of the Arts. Museum of Design Zurich. Archive ZHdK: Advertisement for typewriter (proof): Weltmeisterin (no advertising phrase) (original title) IBM - The dynamic company for dynamic companies (subtitles) . Basel 1963 , accessed on January 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Lude, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German world champion in typing and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1935