Christiane LANZKE

Christiane Lanzke was an East German diver who took part in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with the mixed German team. She finished 5th on platform and 10th on springboard . In 1966 she retired due to a shoulder injury. After her sports career she became one of the best known actors in the former GDR. After reunification she worked in the Potsdam-based cabaret Obelisk but struggled in the combined Germany, and later drowned herself in the Baltic Sea near Rostock in 2005.