Charlotte Oelschlägel

Charlotte Oelschlägel (born August 14, 1898 in Berlin ; † November 14, 1984 there ), also known as Charlotte Hayward , was a German figure skater . She only performed under her first name for most of her life.

Career

Charlotte Oelschlägel was born in Berlin on August 14, 1898. In addition to her sports career, she was also a musician. At the age of seven she was already on stage with the Berliner Philharmoniker . She played the mandolin, lute, harp and piano.

When she was ten years old, she suffered from nerve and growth problems. Medication could not alleviate this. She was advised to try ice skating. At first she did this together with her brother Fritz. Later she was trained professionally by Paul Münder .

In 1915 she was the first to appear in an ice revue on Broadway in “ Hip-Hip-Hooray! “At the New York Hippodrome. Oelschlägel was also the first figure skater to appear in a film: in 1916 in " The Frozen Warning ".

In 1916 Oelschlägel was the first woman to show the simple Axel .

Oelschlägel was married to the figure skater Curt Neumann . Together with him she showed the first one-handed death spiral in Budapest in 1928 . Oelschlägel is the inventor of the death spiral and the Charlotte spiral , also known as candlestick spiral.

In 1929 Oelschlägel appeared in Cincinnati for the last time in an ice revue in the USA. Ten years later, her figure skating career ended because of World War II . Her passport was confiscated by the National Socialists. After the end of the war she worked as a trainer at the Grunewalder TC, and in 1976 she retired. Charlotte Oelschlägel died on November 14, 1984 in a senior citizens' home in Berlin. A year later she was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame as the fourth German ever .

Web links

• Charlotte Oelschlägel in the Internet Movie Database (English)