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in Berlin. She has widely published on the history of divided Germany
and German sports history. She directed a research project on the history
of the East German national team and she is currently working on a proj-
ect on East German health policy in the Cold War. Her most recent book
is Im Riss zweier Epochen: Potsdam in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren.
NOTES- “Schäuble will Erfolg des DDR-Sports retten,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei-
tung, 22 March 1990. - “Hauptausschuss des DSB diskutiert Einigungsprozess,” Frankfurter Rund-
schau, 25 June 1990. - Hans Joachim Teichler, “Sportentwicklung in Ostdeutschland nach der
Wende,” Horch und Guck 14 (2005): 40–43. - Jutta Braun and René Wiese, “DDR-Fußball und gesamtdeutsche Identität
im Kalten Krieg,” Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 30
(2005): 191–210. - Jenifer Parks, “Verbal Gymnastics: Sports, Bureaucracy and the Soviet Union’s
Entrance into the Olympic Games, 1946–1952,” in East Plays West: Sport and
the Cold War, ed. Stephen Wagg and David L. Andrews (New York, 2007),
27–44; Mike O’Mahony, Sport in the USSR: Physical Culture—Visual Culture
(London, 2006), 151ff. - Allen Guttmann, The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games (Illinois,
2002); Arnd Krüger, Sport und Politik. Von Turnvater Jahn zum Staatsamateur
(Hannover, 1975). - Research so far has mainly focused on the period until 1972. See Uta Andrea
Balbier, Kalter Krieg auf der Aschenbahn. Der deutsch-deutsche Sport 1950–
1972 (Paderborn, 2006); Tobias Blasius, Olympische Bewegung, Kalter Krieg
und Deutschlandpolitik 1949–1972 (Frankfurt a. M., 2001). - Peter Danckert and Holger Schück, Kraftmaschine Parlament. Der Sportaus-
schuss und die Sportpolitik des Bundes (Aachen, 2009). - “Züchten wir Monstren?,” Die Zeit, 5 December 1969; “Der Sport geht über
den Rubikon,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, 26/27 February 1977. Brigitte Beren-
donk was the East German Vierkampf champion in 1958, the West German
junior pentathlon champion in 1959, and the German discus champion in
1971; she participated in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics on the West German
team. - See Giselher Spitzer, Sieg um jeden Preis. Doping in Deutschland: Geschichte,
Recht, Ethik 1972–1990 (Göttingen, 2013), 50f. - This also included doping research conducted by the Federal Institute for
Sport Sciences. See Erik Eggers and Giselher Spitzer, “Das BISp-Forschungs-
projekt ‘Regeneration und Testosteron’ 1985–1993,” in Sieg um jeden Preis.