Madi Epply

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Madi Epply Diving
Personal information
Nationality: AustriaAustria Austria
Discipline (s) : Art and high diving
Birthday: September 22, 1907
Place of birth: Vienna
Date of death: July 23, 2005
Place of death: Vienna
Medals

Magdalena Maria "Madi" (also "Mädi" and "Mady") Epply (born September 22, 1907 in Vienna ; † July 23, 2005 there ) was an Austrian diver . She was Austrian and European champion several times in the disciplines of art and high diving and took part in the Olympic Games in 1932 and 1936 .

Life and athletic career

Madi Epply ran her own hairdressing salon with four employees and two apprentices in the Gersthof district of Vienna as a master hairdresser. The short, blonde woman was sporty: she was a skier and, according to her own statement, was an “enthusiastic ice skater” and had the sports badge of the Austrian main body sport association .

She only started diving in 1928 and took lessons in gymnastics and acrobatic gymnastics from the Viennese sports teacher Eduard "Edi" Polz (1896–1974). When she took part in a competition for the first time, she defeated the German Olympic candidate Ilse Meudtner in diving in a city competition between Vienna and Berlin . From 1930 to 1939, Epply was Austrian champion in both art and high diving. At the European Swimming Championships in Paris in 1931 , she won the gold medal in diving from the 10-meter board and the silver medal in jumping from the 3-meter board.

Epply crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the passenger steamer Europa in July 1932 together with the Austrian Olympic squad .

In 1932 she qualified for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the run-up to the event , she attended a reception given by the then Austrian Federal President Wilhelm Miklas with other Olympic candidates and sports officials . On July 10, 1932, the Olympic squad in Bremen embarked on the six-day cruise on the modern steamship Europa to New York . The foil fencer Ellen Preis , the wrestler Nikolaus Hirschl , the weightlifter Karl Hipfinger and her later husband, the diver Sepp Staudinger , traveled with Epply ; Also on board were the German sports journalist Kurt Doerry and the press illustrator Emil Stumpp from Berlin. Epply finished the artificial jumping competitions in Los Angeles sixth out of eight participants from six countries and finished seventh in the combined high diving with two jumps each from the 5 and 10 meter board. She also took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , where she was 12th in artificial jumping and 21st in diving.

Media response

Madi Epply and Josef Staudinger were a popular motif of sports photographer Lothar Rübelt (1901–1990) during their training and competition jumps in the 1930s , whose work is now in museums and collections and is sold at high prices at auctions. In 1985 a poster for the special photography exhibition “The Secret of Moments” in the Albertina in Vienna showed a Rübelt photo taken in 1932 of the Epply / Staudinger couple jumping from the 10-meter tower into Lake Millstatt . Another double jump photo from 1935 with the title "Mädy Epply and Sepp Staudinger doing a double jump from the 10-meter tower" can be seen on the cover of the book accompanying the exhibition "Im Blickpunkt", which was published in 2002 by the Austrian photo collection National Library was hosted.

The Austrian media showed great interest in the internationally successful top athlete. In the women's magazine Das Wort der Frau , for example, the article Our European Champion appeared in October 1931 : A visit to Mädi Epply . Her wedding photo was printed in the 1935 yearbook of the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung . In an interview with the magazine Fußball-Sonntag , which at the beginning of 1938 also asked Madi Epply as a prominent sportswoman on the controversial topic of women's football at the time , she said:

“This kind of martial arts - I'll add handball to that - is not suitable for women. […] Women who sweat, with their hair loosened, bump and bump into each other are a sight that no one can give pleasure, who might serve men for amusement […]. I hate women's football. "

- Madi Epply : Interview in the magazine Fußball-Sonntag from January 2, 1938

Personal

In June 1935 Epply married her sports colleague Josef “Sepp” Staudinger (1906–1998), the European high diving champion from 1931 in Vienna . The marriage was divorced in 1942. In the same year she married again and from then on was called Tanzer.

Trivia

The scrapbook "Record in Sport" published in 1934 also contained a scrap picture with a photo of Madi Epply (picture no. 157). It was an album for cigarette pictures from the Dresden cigarette factory Greiling, for which the German sports journalist Kurt Doerry had written the lyrics.

Web links

Photos:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b baptismal register Pf. Vienna Gersthof, tom. VIII, fol. 277. In: Matricula. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ilse Korotin: biografiA. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 737 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Austrian National Library: ANNO, Das Wort der Frau, October 11, 1931, p. 3. In: anno.onb.ac.at. October 11, 1931, accessed September 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Medalists on gbrbrathletics.com, accessed September 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ Rübelt photo: The Olympic candidates at the Federal President (1932) , bildarchivaustria.at, accessed on September 26, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Year: 1932; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm series: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm No. 5188; P. 76; Line 7.
  7. ↑ Results on sports-reference , sports-reference.com, accessed on September 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ Results 5 and 10 meter board , sports-reference.com, accessed on September 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ Object of the Month August 2016 - Vienna Library. (No longer available online.) In: wien.gv.at. July 29, 2016, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  10. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, (Wiener) Sporttagblatt, 1936-08-13, page 2. In: anno.onb.ac.at. August 13, 1936, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Madi Epply-Staudinger on the website of the Austrian Olympic Committee , olympia.at, accessed on September 11, 2016.
  12. ↑ Markus Mittringer: Head jumps, wars, built things: Austria in pictures , Der Standard , December 26, 2002, derstandard.at, accessed on September 11, 2016.
  13. ↑ Photo Mädi Epply and Sepp Staudinger diving in the tower , picture archive of the Austrian National Library, bildarchivaustria.at, accessed on September 11, 2016.
  14. ↑ a b Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung: Yearbook 1935, p. 94. In: fernsehmuseum.info. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
  15. ^ Matthias Marschik: Women's football and masculinity. LIT Verlag Münster, 2003, ISBN 978-3-825-86787-4 , p. 148 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  16. ^ Josef Staudinger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on September 6, 2018.
  17. ↑ Photo of the Epply / Staudinger wedding , picture archive of the Austrian National Library, bildarchivaustria.at, accessed on September 11, 2016.
  18. ↑ Wedding book Pf. Vienna Gersthof, tom. X, fol. 17. In: Matricula. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  19. ^ Scrapbook Record in Sport , object database of the City History Museum Leipzig, accessed on September 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Epply, Madi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Epply, Magdalena Maria (full name); Epply-Staudinger, Magdalena (married name); Epply, Mady; Epply, Madi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian water diver
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2005
Place of death Vienna