[1] She was a student at the EOS Heinrich Schliemann when she took part in an East Germany Women's Chess Championship for the first time in 1985 and ranked in 4th place.

In the same year she achieved the norm of Women FIDE Master and successfully led a training group of eight to ten-year-old boys and girls.

[3] After completing her German studies in Leipzig in 1992, she lived with her family in Berlin, Bonn, Warsaw, Rome and Tashkent.

As Antje Riedel, she played at the East Germany Women's Chess Championships in 1985 in Jüterbog (Marion Heintze won), 1986 in Nordhausen (Carola Manger won), 1987 in Glauchau (third place behind Iris Bröder and Marion Heintze), 1988 in Stralsund (first before Marion Heintze, Annett Wagner-Michel, Iris Bröder and Gundula Nehse) and in 1989 in Zittau (Kerstin Kunze won).

[6] In the Chess Women's Bundesligashe 1991-92 season for the SSV Rotation Berlin team, she scored 7.5 points in 11 games.