Germany's Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt, His Excellency Dr. Reiner HASELOFF, was visibly impressed when he presented Johanna QUAAS' excitingly diverse and impressive 98-year life in Magdeburg's "Palais am Fuerstenwall" in the State Chancellery ballroom. At the presentation of the "Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon" on behalf of Germany's Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, he described in his laudatory speech the path of a lively little gymnastics girl in her father's garden, through the sports student in difficult post-war...

The four-decade-long history of the DTB Cup began 40 years ago with the 1^st EURO tournament in artistic gymnastics. As a top-class tournament with "GRAND PRIX status", it even received the DTB CUP dignified unofficial title of "Wimbledon of artistic gymnastics", largely shaped by its creator at the time, Mr. Robert BAUR, and was one of the highest-calibre World Cups until 2019. (→ 40 years of the DTB Cup; in German only).
After a...