Talk:Rosemarie Lorenz

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I suspect that Rosemarie Lorenz is the same person. Does anyone know? Searching for <Rosemarie Schmidtke rudern> in East German newspapers via the Berlin State Library, you get results until July 1968. Searching for "Rosemarie Lorenz", you get results from 1969 onwards. However, Lorenz wasn't a novice rower, but an old hand. An interview with her was published on 2 April 1971, and she had the following to say (I shall show the German text in its entirety first as registration is required to get to the source, and then translate the relevant bits into English):

Rosemarie Lorenz (27). BfN-Leiterinn — Ich brauche zum Ausgleich eine Sportveranstaltung. Wenn man so lange wie ich Leistungssportlerin war (Goldmedaillengewinnerin im Vierer mit Steuermann, d. Red.), dann fallt eben der Besuch des Theaters zugunsten eines Besuches im Stadion flach. Außerdem verlangt mein elfjähriges Kind sein Recht, einmal in der Woche wird noch träniert. um einigermaßen fit zu bleiben. Und wenn ich mich dann aufraffe und zu meinem Mann sage, gehen wir heute mal ins Theater, dann meint er: Ach, laß uns doch lieber auf den Fußballplatz gehen, und so bleibt es dann.

Apart from her being 27 in 1971, the partial English translation reads: "If you have been a competitive athlete for so long, ..." An editorial remark states that she was a "gold medal winner in the coxed four". My guess is that the gold medal can only refer to European Championships, but there was never a Rosemarie from East Germany who was part of the winning team. I suspect we are looking at an editorial mistake, and they should rather have referred to gold in the women's eight, which was won by Rosemarie Schmidtke in 1968, and by Rosemarie Lorenz in 1969.

Rosemarie Schmidtke and Renate Boesler (an aunt of Petra and Martina Boesler) won silver at the East German rowing championships in 1967 in the double sculls. Schmidtke and Boesler also competed in the East German rowing championships in 1968 as a team, but did not win a medal and there is no newspaper reporting subsequent to the championships. At the East German rowing championships in 1969, Roesler teamed up with Rosemarie Lorenz, and they won silver. My hunch is that sometime between the 1968 and 1969 European Championships, Schmidtke changed her name to Lorenz. Schwede 66 20:37, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Compare the photograph in the newspaper to commons:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-D0731-0018-001, Rosemarie Schmidtke.jpg. Clearly the same person, I’d say. —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:01, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed! Thanks. Schwede 66 19:43, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]