Like several other female East German skaters who got married after the season had ended (and several of them more than once over the course of their careers), Enke caused some confusion among the speed skating public when she—a skater with a name unfamiliar to them—suddenly won major titles in her "first" season. To alleviate the confusion, Enke kept her maiden name as the "first" part of her last name after her third marriage, just like Gunda Kleemann (also known as "Gunda Niemann" and "Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann") kept "Niemann" (the name of her first husband) as the "first" part of her last name even after her divorce and both before and after her second marriage, which is unusual in most Western European countries.