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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3fLOCA56mU
Katarina Witt is the most successful female athlete in the history of figure skating with two Olympic victories, four world championship and six European championship titles. She combines East German identity with international flair and is to this day the "most beautiful face of socialism" - and the most internationally known citizen of the former GDR. She has reinvented herself again and again: as an East German ice princess, as an international show star, as an ambassador for sport. To this day, she confidently stands by her GDR origins, which many give her high credit, but which also brought her hostility.
The film "Katarina Witt - World Star from the GDR" by Jobst Knigge follows the path of the girl from Saxony to Hollywood. The result is the portrait of a woman who has achieved more from the confines of the GDR than many before her. But the privileges had a price: Katarina Witt was a beneficiary of the state and at the same time was monitored by the Stasi from childhood. For this film, she opens her files stowed in the basement for the first time in decades.
The more than 3,000 pages deal with training reviews, arguments, competitions. But also: lucrative offers from the west that came to nothing. After the turning point 30 years ago, a public debate about the person Katarina Witt ignited. Only 23 years young, the girl from Karl-Marx-Stadt flees into show business in the USA.
The film follows the world star through changeable decades and accompanies her current everyday life in Chemnitz, Potsdam and Berlin as well as her professional engagement in St. Petersburg and Toronto. The American Olympic champion Brian Boitano, the figure skating world champion and daughter of trainer Jutta Müller Gabriele Seyfert as well as the former GDR state and party leader Egon Krenz have their say.
Click on the CC button on bottom right of screen for English subtitles (1 hour 29 mins.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3fLOCA56mU
Katarina Witt is the most successful female athlete in the history of figure skating with two Olympic victories, four world championship and six European championship titles. She combines East German identity with international flair and is to this day the "most beautiful face of socialism" - and the most internationally known citizen of the former GDR. She has reinvented herself again and again: as an East German ice princess, as an international show star, as an ambassador for sport. To this day, she confidently stands by her GDR origins, which many give her high credit, but which also brought her hostility.
The film "Katarina Witt - World Star from the GDR" by Jobst Knigge follows the path of the girl from Saxony to Hollywood. The result is the portrait of a woman who has achieved more from the confines of the GDR than many before her. But the privileges had a price: Katarina Witt was a beneficiary of the state and at the same time was monitored by the Stasi from childhood. For this film, she opens her files stowed in the basement for the first time in decades.
The more than 3,000 pages deal with training reviews, arguments, competitions. But also: lucrative offers from the west that came to nothing. After the turning point 30 years ago, a public debate about the person Katarina Witt ignited. Only 23 years young, the girl from Karl-Marx-Stadt flees into show business in the USA.
The film follows the world star through changeable decades and accompanies her current everyday life in Chemnitz, Potsdam and Berlin as well as her professional engagement in St. Petersburg and Toronto. The American Olympic champion Brian Boitano, the figure skating world champion and daughter of trainer Jutta Müller Gabriele Seyfert as well as the former GDR state and party leader Egon Krenz have their say.