Early childhood in the security of the family and then the distance from it.
To make rowing accessible in the easiest way possible and to stimulate as many people as possible to take up this sport
My outlook on life
This commitment to the broad field of recreational, school and competition rowing is truly transforming me.
Following my intuitions
I am not concerned with the others in the boat, often as a strokewoman. I observe and feel myself in the urge to do my best in the multi-layered environment that surrounds me with nature, boat and other people. I learned to silence my thoughts with the judgment of the rowing of others in my brain and my mouth in the conviction that we all want the same thing, the pure pleasure of rowing.
In this way, I am honing my self-discipline, i.e. my true self-determination, more and more.
This vibrant energy was and is also indispensable for my further work in the business world.
After leaving the large company and the end of my executive role, a new way of being and working in the non-profit sector within NGO’s opened up to me, as an essential learning process and human maturation. I listen to the intentions embodied in me and pursue their realization as a matter of course. Creative action proves easy and effortless with a sense of fulfillment without any psychological exhaustion. I feel truly transformed to see what I can create without any initial knowledge or material foundation, from zero and nothing, and I realize with admiration the great importance of interrelationships. Every time I notice that I am missing a building block in my project, a new encounter or event opens up.
My path to the past
MARIT born in the summer of 1968 in Meißen
1968-2018: “50 classic years, as everyone knows them, except for my singularity as a rower.”
1968
1975 
The following childhood with school, and for me more and more in sports. At the age of 11, I'm sitting in my scull on the big Elbe in the city where I was born on a small hill overlooking the Elbe. At the age of 13, I was drawn to complete independence and switched from the train to my bike for the 10 km journey between home and rowing.
My youth was completely shaped by learning and sport. Discipline is a matter of course, which gives me very good results at school and in sport, with several GDR championship titles in the double scull and one in the single scull.
Les études à l’Université Technique de Dresde, à seulement 20 km de chez moi, sont évidentes pour moi, avec un grand-père qui a fait des études de construction mécanique, un père qui a fait des études d'électrotechnique et aussi quelque part, en faisant partie du paysage industriel historiquement marqué de la Saxe. Tout aussi palpable est mon besoin croissant de compenser physiquement le bachotage. Je me souviens encore des paroles de mon père, ne te trompe pas, de croire que tu peux accomplir toutes les tâches qui te sont demandées.
The intellectual pressure to perform takes a back seat, as our second year of study is the year the Berlin Wall fell. Without asking myself (as usual) not the slightest question, my actual intentions are directed towards my dream country, which had become apparent in me at the beginning of my youth through my choice of French lessons. “If I could see Paris for even a single day, I would be happy for the rest of my life”.
Now I also row in Paris and Fontainebleau on the Seine during my two internships. The engineering diploma, when I finish my studies in between, is easy for me. All that moves me is to return to France and I turn down a job offer at the university. Paris gave me back my enthusiasm and human development. The natural force makes me overcome all obstacles in my job search and I am already standing at the train station in Mâcon with all my belongings (a bicycle and a backpack).
1995
After a few rowing trips on the Saône, I close the door of the rowing club behind me at the age of 27, i.e. after 16 years of rowing. Independent cycling and running in the enchanting Burgundy region is a more suitable balance for my stimulating and challenging job as an R&D project engineer in multinational companies in the energy sector.
After 27 years of professional career in research and development in large companies, I feel I have fulfilled my social mission in the field of engineering and at the same time I feel at home in the capital of the French Alps.
In the meantime, my deepest dream of Grenoble has also come true. Due to a company restructuring, I am leaving Mâcon and my love for the high mountains and snow has run free. I feel that there are many similarities between this metropolis and my university city of Dresden, whether it's the economic history or the cultural offerings. It's almost as if I was born here in 1968 with the Winter Olympics.
I agree with my employer on my move out of the company in the direction of my independence. This clear understanding of my decision originated during 2 solo expeditions to the highest altitudes. The distance, especially due to the way of life in the Himalayas, gives me a more objective overall view of my life.
My life today
2021
My definitive departure from a major economic structure means that I am now socially isolated. The resulting need, combined with my love for Grenoble, led me to knock on the door of the Grenoble Rowing Club in the summer of 2021, after 6 years of hesitation since my arrival here.
This step is enlightening
Received with attention and affection, I am immediately placed in a solo rowing boat, which becomes less stable and glides all the better with each passing day. My feeling of carefree childhood and my enthusiasm from dreams of that time awaken and intensify with every new outing.
My nightmares resurface,
with the fear of getting into a rowing boat and the greatest fear of starting a race. Delusions and truth collide. Often my tears of joy roll through my bliss in the middle of a magical body of water surrounded by the majestic Alps. I sit in my narrow, long boat and suddenly I am overcome by the feeling of <b“coming home again, back to the security of home after a long journey that has enriched me so much”. A dream comes true that I would never have imagined. Suddenly, I regain my complete self-confidence.
I am deeply grateful for this warm community that welcomes me so openly and joyfully. Since then, the rowing family has been my new family, offering me everything I need for my balance (not on the water). It is my new role, my purpose in life, to support the many adult newcomers in perfecting their rowing technique. I watch as the frustration of rowing and stagnation is replaced by the pleasure of smiling faces. Gratitude, which I now often receive on the jetty, gives me an indescribable strength to compensate for my hard work. A delightful balance of give and take as the essence of common human development. I enjoy my new-found expertise, as well as that of a technician for necessary repairs.
I quickly discovered further happiness
as a volunteer trainer for school rowing as part of the sports club of the international high school in Grenoble through my efforts to participate regularly in the rowing club. I was soon able to consolidate this framework through training. Through the practical part, I realized that I would like to accompany adult rowers in the single scull with an outside view, which completes our rowing experience together in team boats. I am delighted to receive my first diploma from the national rowing federation.
At the same time, our masters rowing is developing
on this basis of popular sport, and quite impressively at that. If I was glad not to be part of the first bold beginnings of the women's masters rowing team as beginners at national level in 2021 and also experienced the rather painful experiences, especially in the women's eight the following year, our joy in the third year was huge with a bronze medal.
In the fourth year, 2024,
our solid, hard and regular training led us to the unexpected highlight of being double French champions (long distance and “normal” 1000 m) in this king boat class. This is “only” the best possible example of the many medals we have won in the French championships. My feelings as I watched the pioneers from the first year are obvious. Being able to pass on my rowing skills to others in this competitive environment fulfills me deep down.
At the end of 2023, I now have a fairly complete insight into private enterprise
and non-profit activity with a number of individual entrepreneurial attempts, all of which I pursue to the end without realizing them.
On December 31, 2023,
I generously give information about rowing equipment to a person in Germany. These are Liteboats, rowing boats that I appreciate very much, which, thanks to their high quality and particularly innovative spirit, make rowing accessible to as many people as possible, just as I did when I returned to rowing in 2021.
January 2024 :
Three days later, I have an hour-long phone call with the founder and managing director of Liteboat Manufacture near Grenoble and what has been struggling unsuccessfully for more than a year to become known in Germany. Two weeks later, I discover the company, which is characterized by conscientious manual production full of care. The coherence between the company's vision and its realization made me immediately accept the challenge of seducing Germany with the Liteboat.
May 2024 :
Five months later, it is as if my Liteboat adventure is closing my happy circle of life as it warmly reopens the door of my original rowing club in Meissen after nearly 36 years of absence. Its members admire the Liteboat venture and make me very welcome to row again during my stays here, as does their support of the noble Liteboat rowing adventure.
My intention & my project
Here & Now How does my economic and social commitment play out? As life has shown me to date and in the following framework under the official name
Business intermediary of high-quality rowing boats handmade in France that can give great pleasure to everyone, preferably for Germany, by correspondence or individual exchange (from Grenoble).
Support and advice for people interested in rowing through instruction in rowing practice and boat technology (all manufacturers), whether self-employed, in clubs or both.
And above all, I work locally throughout Germany. The direct customer relationship inspires me the most. I visit prospective customers, present the rowing boat and associated equipment, have it tested where the person wants to row. If it is the first time that the person has come into contact with this water sports discipline, I introduce them to the rowing technique so that they can row their first full strokes independently in less than an hour.
The next step is the purchase, for which I travel to the customer once again to bring the boat to their doorstep, set it up with them and trim it. For rowing beginners, there is also a new rowing training course
Or the customer is curious to get to know France and especially the production of his or her boat. Here, too, I welcome him/her warmly and am happy to help him/her organize the trip. This is the most effective way to be let in on the secrets of the manufacturing process, to be shown the boat, to be able to test it and to take it home with you immediately assembled and adjusted, combined with magical travel memories.
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