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.{{cite web |title=Prof. Ines Geipel |url=https://www.hfs-berlin.de/mensch/ines-geipel/ |website=www.hfs-berlin.de |publisher=HfS Ernst Busch |access-date=1 July 2024 |language=de}}

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 SED, of which she had previously been a party member.{{cn|date=September 2024}} She studied sociology and philosophy in Darmstadt.{{cite web |title=Buchautor: Ines Geipel |url=https://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/ines-geipel.html |publisher=Perlentaucher |access-date=1 July 2024}}

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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 ({{ill|Doping-Opfer-Hilfe|de}}).{{cite news |title=East Germany athletes were 'chemical field tests' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/22269445 |access-date=1 July 2024 |work=BBC Sport |date=23 April 2013}} 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.{{cite web |title=HARDtalk, Former East German sprinter - Ines Geipel |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy9df |website=BBC World Service |publisher= |access-date=1 July 2024}}