The 2009 German Figure Skating Championships (German: Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen) was the German Figure Skating Championships for the 2008–2009 figure skating season. The German Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Germany. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating. Skaters competed on the Senior and Junior levels.
The 2008–2009 competition took place in Oberstdorf, Germany between December 18 and 21, 2008.
Famous quotes containing the words german, figure and/or skating:
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriends—and he accepts it.”
—Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)