Overview
- Witt says her Generation X keeps workplaces running and credits it with building a great deal through diligence and discipline.
- She questions whether younger people have the necessary resilience and contrasts her cohort’s decisiveness with a 28-year-old’s hesitation about career choices.
- The comments were published in Focus and were reported by major German outlets on November 10.
- Witt, born in 1965 and turning 60 on December 3, won Olympic figure skating gold in 1984 and 1988 for East Germany and later for reunified Germany.
- She is now an entrepreneur who runs the Kurvenstar sports studio in Potsdam and serves as patron of the local sports festival Inklusiv gewinnt.