Antje Göhler (née Riedel; born 18 October 1967) is a German

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Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(1988) who won East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1988). She is Doctor (PhD) in

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Life

Antje Göhler was coached by Peter Höhne. She was a student at the ''EOS Heinrich Schliemann'' when she took part in an East Germany Women's Chess Championship for the first time in 1985 and ranked in 4th place. In the same year she achieved the norm of Women FIDE Master and successfully led a training group of eight to ten-year-old boys and girls. In 1988 she won the 37th East Germany Women's Chess Championship. After completing her German studies in Leipzig in 1992, she lived with her family in Berlin, Bonn, Warsaw, Rome and Tashkent. She completed her research on literary expressionism and its reception of antiquity in 2011 with a doctorate from the Fernuniversität in Hagen. In 2014 she published her debut novel ''Balcke oder Der Hypermoderne Prometheus''.

Chess career

Individual Championships

As Antje Riedel, she played at the East Germany Women's Chess Championships in 1985 in

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won), 1986 in

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( Carola Manger won), 1987 in

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(third place behind Iris Bröder and Marion Heintze), 1988 in

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(first before Marion Heintze,

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, Iris Bröder and Gundula Nehse) and in 1989 in

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( Kerstin Kunze won). In 1985 and 1987 she won the East Germany Women's Blitz Championships. In the women's grandmasters chess tournament in 1988 in

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she scored 6 points from 13 games, behind five

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- 10, Tatiana Stepovaya - 9,

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and

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- 8 points each and

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7.5 points.

Team Championships

She won the East Germany Women's Team Blitz Championships five times: in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989 and 1990, each time with the ''BSG AdW Berlin'' team. In the Chess Women's Bundesligashe 1991-92 season for the ''SSV Rotation Berlin'' team, she scored 7.5 points in 11 games. She then played for ''SSV Rotation Berlin'' from 1992-93 to 1996-97, 1998–99 and 1999-2000 and from 2001-02 to 2003-04. In 2004-05, 2006–07, 2008–09 and 2011-12 she played for the team of the association ''Rotation Pankow''.The association Rotation Pankow is not a renaming of the SSV Rotation Berlin, but a spin-off from this in the year 2004. The association SSV Rotation Berlin continues to exist and also plays at Berlin level with its own teams. In the intervening years she played in the second Chess Women's Bundesliga.

Publications

* Antje Göhler: ''Antique Reception in Literary Expressionism'', Frank & Timme, Berlin, 2012. ISBN 978-3865963772 * Antje Göhler: ''Balcke or the hypermodern Prometheus''. Novel. Elektroischer Verlag, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-943889-62-8

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Göhler, Antje 1967 births Living people Chess players from Berlin Chess Woman International Masters German female chess players German chess players German Germanists Writers from Berlin German women writers German-language writers 20th-century German sportswomen