Sportgeschichte vor Gericht. Ein Gutachten zu Dopingpraxis und SED-Unrecht im DDR-Sport

In the organizer's words:

The court files of the "doping trials" of the 1990s provide a comprehensive
a comprehensive basis for shedding new light on state-ordered doping
in the GDR from different perspectives. Because
for the first time, a communist state sport was legally investigated.
Why was doping characterized by arbitrariness despite state planning
? How and why did the methods radicalize in an unpredictable way?
way ? What political repression was associated with the practice of doping? How did the former people in charge
- functionaries, doctors and trainers - justify their actions?
The study by Jutta Braun and René Wiese also asks,
which accomplices there were in society.
existed in society. Who could children confide in whom the sports system
forbidden by the sports system to talk to their parents about doping
? How did parents react when they noticed physical damage to their
their children ?
In a nutshell: The practice of doping in the GDR is made visible as part
of the social history of a dictatorship.
Following a keynote speech, the author
Dr. Jutta Braun and the author Dr. René Wiese (both Zentrum Deutsche
Sportgeschichte, Berlin) will discuss their findings and present their
book, which was published by Arete Verlag, Hildesheim, in 2024.

- Responsible: Dr. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann