Tod für Olympia
Client
Radio Bremen
Length
3 x 25 Minuten
Publication
from Tuesday, June 04 in the ARD media library
Friday, June 07 at 11:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 08 at 0.15 a.m.
Saturday, June 08 at 0:40 a.m.
Genre
Dokumentation
April 1987: A 26-year-old world-class athlete dies in Mainz University Hospital from multi-organ failure - pumped full of dozens of substances from doping and painkillers. The deceased is Birgit Dressel from Bremen, at the time the great hope of German athletics in the heptathlon.
Why did the athlete have to die? And what consequences did this tragedy have for German sport?
In the three-part ARD documentary series "Death for the Olympics - The Case of Birgit Dressel", author Yannick Lowin talks to those closest to Dressel, reopens the case with experts and sketches a picture of a merciless sports system in which the death of a young woman has no consequences. Luise Großmann plays the athlete in fictional scenes (written and directed by Nils Loof).
Autor: Yannick Lowin
Kamera: Olaf Markmann
Ton: Tina Dobbertin, Jens Bierlein
Editor: Jan Albracht
Grafik: Markus Holzum
Coloristin: Safy Reske
Postproduktion Supervisor: Lucas Keßler
Producer: Christian Grauer-Mettin
Produktionsassistenz: Kirsten Haas
Redaktion: Jan-Dirk Bruns
"Tod für Olympia - Der Fall Birgit Dressel" is a Dokness production commissioned by Radio Bremen (Jan-Dirk Bruns) and SWR (Christoph Pietsch) for ARD 2024 - available in the ARD Mediathek.