Ines Geipel

Ines Geipel (born 1960) is a German academic and former athlete. She is professor of verse language at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch) in Berlin, where she teaches a course in contemporary puppetry.

She was born in 1960 in Dresden in the then East Germany. She was a competitive athlete there before escaping to the west in 1989. She studied sociology and philosophy in Darmstadt. As an athlete she was a victim of Doping in East Germany, and she was president from 2013 to 2018 of the group Help for Victims of Doping (Doping-Opfer-Hilfe). She was a co-plaintiff in the 2000 trial of Manfred Ewald and Manfred Höppner.

In 2019 she was the subject of an episode of the BBC series HARDtalk, interviewed by Stephen Sackur.

Awards
In 2011 Geipel was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Cross of Merit) for her writing and political engagement. and in 2020 the Lessing Prize for Criticism.

Selected publications

 * Geipel, Ines:(August 2024) Fabelland: Der Osten, der Westen, der Zorn und das Glück
 * Originally published as Umkämpfte Zone. Mein Bruder, der Osten und der Hass (2019)
 * Originally published as Umkämpfte Zone. Mein Bruder, der Osten und der Hass (2019)


 * Originally published as Schöner Neuer Himmel. Aus dem Militärlabor des Ostens (2022)
 * Originally published as Schöner Neuer Himmel. Aus dem Militärlabor des Ostens (2022)