Overall, he played 21 international matches for the senior team, scoring two goals. Further career Positions as coach and manager After his playing career, Lutz Lindemann began a coaching career. His first stop was in 1982/83 with the GDR league promoted Motor Hermsdorf. There he did not manage to stay up and switched to the 1983/84 season for the GDR league newcomer progress Weida. Lindemann was also immediately relegated with Weida, but was able to continue working with the team and led them back into the GDR league in 1987. In July 1989 he went back to Jena, where he took over the position of team manager. From 1992 to 1995, Lindemann was a coach at FC Erzgebirge Aue and then manager at the Violets. After Ralf Minge was kicked out, he also took over the coaching post in Aue again from April 1996 to June 1998. From July 1998 to 2003, Lindemann was almost exclusively active as a manager - briefly accompanied by a position as assistant coach under Holger Erler in spring 1999 - at FC Erzgebirge Aue. From 2004 to 2006, Lindemann was manager at Hallescher FC and was also coach there for a period of seven months. Since 28 January 2007, Lindemann has served as sporting director in Jena. However, he had to give up this post on 22 December 2007, as he was responsible for FC Carl Zeiss' poor table situation at the end of the first half of the 2007/08 season. From January to June 2008, Lindemann worked as chief scout for FC Carl Zeiss Jena. On 1 July 2008, the club separated from him. On 24 September 2009, Lindemann was introduced as a "board member with responsibility for youth work" at the NRW league team Sportfreunde Siegen. From 29 October 2009, Lindemann was responsible for the entire sporting area of Sportfreunde, on 29 March 2010 he also temporarily took over the post of chairman of the board. After four years in Siegerland, he ended his work there in the summer of 2013. For the 2013/14 season he became sporting director of the regional league team FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin. On 4 April 2014, Lindemann was confirmed as the new president of FC Carl Zeiss Jena. On 1 March 2016, Lindemann announced his resignation as managing director of FC Carl Zeiss Jena Fußball Spielbetriebs GmbH, and he also resigned from the position of sporting