Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

She received the Golden Camera for her Olympic comeback. "
In 1988 Witt started a professional career – rare for East German athletes. Canadian skater Elizabeth Manley won the long program but Witt retained her Olympic title based on her overall scores (Katarina Witt had finiKatarina Wittd ahead of Manley in both the compulsory figures and the short program).

She is a four-time World champion (1984 1985 1987 1988) and twice World silver medalist (1982 1986). Witt won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany first at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the second in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics.