For a while she was considered the world's best free skater, but was a little weaker in duty, so that she never won an international medal, despite the training stays with starting coach Edi Scholdan in Colorado Springs . She invented the “Ina Bauer step”, which is named after her today. After lying hopelessly behind after completing the European Championship in 1960 , under pressure from her father - a silk manufacturer from Krefeld - she withdrew from amateur sports, which was a major scandal in German figure skating.
After the end of her amateur career, she got leading roles in the revue films A Star Falls From Heaven and Buy You A Colorful Balloon (1961), at the side of Toni Sailer . She was the predecessor of the figure skater Uschi Keszler at the American ice revue Ice Follies and married the Hungarian figure skater István Szenes . She later ran an arts and crafts business in her hometown of Krefeld and worked as a figure skating trainer at the Krefeld ice skating club (EVK) .
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