Ines Geipel

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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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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 [de]).^[3] 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.^[4]