Tanja Szewczenko
Tanja Szewczenko ( German transcription " Shevchenko ", born July 26, 1977 in Dusseldorf ) is a former German figure skater, which was launched in a single run. Since 2001 she works as an actress.
Biography
Tanja Szewczenko started in figure skating for the Düsseldorf EC, their coaches were Hugo Dümler, after changing the power center of Dortmund Peter Meyer (until 1995 ) and Peter Jonas. Her international breakthrough came in 1992 when she won gold at the Junior Cup competition of the Blue Swords in Chemnitz. In 1994 she was the first time German champion as 16 -year-old and won the Japanese Chiba bronze medalist behind Satō Yuka and Surya Bonaly. In 1995 she defended their German Championship title. At the European Championships she missed as early as 1993 with the fourth place medal scarce. In 1996 she forced the glandular fever to a nearly two- year hiatus. In 1998 she became the third and last time German champion and won at the European Championships despite a tonsillectomy the bronze medal behind the Russians Maria Butyrskaya and Irina Sluzkaja. Before the Olympics in Nagano in 1998 it belonged to the extended circle of favorites to a medal rank, but had to because of a flu virus ' not to take part. After further injuries and frequent cancellations the sporting future Szewczenkos was unclear since 1999. Your last competition as a figure skater, she contested at the German Championships in January 2000 in Berlin. A year later, on 15 January 2001, Szewczenko declared their official withdrawal from the figure skating.
Parallel to largely unsuccessful athletic endeavors, she tried to continue her career to another level as a model (including the German Playboy ) and actress.
As of 2002, played Tanja Szewczenko in the daily soap Among us the role of Katinka " Kati " Knight, on December 5, 2005, she was seen in this series for the last time. In the RTL soap opera All that matters Tanja Szewczenko 2006 to 2009 played the role of Diana summer.
In December 2009 Szewczenko put her children's book debut Kiki sled racer - before the ice crystal, which appeared in the children's publishing company founded by her snow.
In the show element of Holiday on Ice Tanja Szewczenko occurred between 2007 and 2009 included in Hamburg, Vienna and Munich again before audiences. The Minister was both as a solo and as a pair skater with her partner Norman Jeschke. Their daughter was born on 25 February 2011.
2013 she took with her boyfriend Norman Jeschke on the game show My husband can participate and finished there in second place. In the same year she took part in Celebrity Shopping Queen. In addition, it takes 2014 the seventh season of Let 's Dance part.
Results
- Z = Withdrawn
Discography
Studio album
- 2004: Step Into My Life
Singles
- 2004: Step Into My Life
- Always Wanna Be in Love
Filmography
Theater
- 2002-2003: A husband for viewing ( Small Theater Bad Godesberg / Neuwied )
- 2004: Frontier Hellcat (Karl -May- Festspiele Bad Segeberg )
- 2005-2006: pants flutter ( comedy Wuppertal / Duisburg )
Stage
- 2000-2001: Magic of the Dance ( European Tour )