Competition in Stuttgart
Lisa Müller is attacking again – and has her eyes on the world leaders
Updated 11/12/2025 – 6:43 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
Lisa Müller is not only advancing her career in politics. At the weekend she also wants to prove herself in equestrian sports.
After retreating and taking a break from the spotlight, Lisa Müller is starting again. At the tournament in Stuttgart, the dressage rider wants to build on her old successes – and is particularly the focus of attention.
Six years ago she celebrated her greatest triumph to date in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle. Back then, she surprisingly won the Grand Prix of the Master Tour – and even left her trainer Isabell Werth behind. This year, the now 36-year-old is returning to the place of her breakthrough with new ambitions.
“I can really make full use of it right now,” Müller told the specialist portal “dressursport.kim” in one of her rare interviews. She will ride the ten-year-old stallion Mondrian in Stuttgart – one of five Grand Prix horses she currently has available.
“I have five Grand Prix horses and they can all achieve 70 percent or more,” said Müller: “That’s very, very nice!” In her stable in Otterfing near Munich, where she runs the Gut Wettlkam stud farm with her husband Thomas Müller, there are currently several hopefuls for top-class sport.
However, the years after the first big success did not go as hoped. Although Müller was appointed to the prospective squad, the highly traded stallion D’Avie did not meet expectations. There has been no connection to the world’s best – so far.
Recently things have been looking up again: victories in international tests with Zonik and successes at the Bavarian championships in 2024 and 2025 give hope for more. “She has very good horses,” said national trainer Monica Theodorescu. “She can make full use of it.” But the road to the top is long: “It also has a lot to do with experience.”
The fact that Müller is under special observation is also due to her prominent husband. “She is under pressure because everyone is watching,” Isabell Werth once said about her student. “She can’t make a mistake without the whole world talking about it.”
Lisa Müller recently withdrew from the public. In the documentary “Thomas Müller – One Like No Other” she explained: “You no longer have a private life. People leave you very little alone.” She also wasn’t active on Instagram for a long time. Just a few weeks ago she returned to the public eye after an internship with State Parliament President Ilse Aigner with a video – now she is returning to the public eye in sports at the competition in Stuttgart.