Ines Geipel
Ines Geipel is a German academic and former athlete. She is professor of verse language at the Ernst Busch Academy of [Dramatic Arts] 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. After her escape, she was expelled from the Socialist [Unity Party of Germany|SED], of which she had previously been a party member. 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. 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.