Die Großmutter der Autorin Christina von Ditfurth: Baroness Luisella von Schönberg. Nachdem sie das Familiengut in den Kaparten nicht verlassen wollte, verschwand sie für fast eine Dekade hinter dem eisernen Vorhang und schaffte es schließlich doch zurück nach Österreich.
In her book “Here I Am Again,” author Christina von Ditfurth tells the incredible story of her grandmother Baroness Luisella von Schönberg. She spent over a decade after the end of the Second World War behind the Iron Curtain and survived, among other things, 6 years in the Gulag before she managed to return to Austria in the mid-1950s.
In her book “Here I Am Again,” author Christina von Ditfurth tells the incredible story of her grandmother Baroness Luisella von Schönberg. She spent over a decade after the end of the Second World War behind the Iron Curtain and survived, among other things, 6 years in the Gulag before she managed to return to Austria in the mid-1950s.
Austrian Christina von Ditfurth can look back on a moving life. Born in 1943 as the child of an impoverished aristocratic family, she lived in modest circumstances in a small mountain village. There she discovered her passion for skiing, which eventually led her to the Austrian national team.
80 Jahre alt und nach wie vor total Ski verrückt. Auch heute muss die ehemalige Profiskifahrerin weiter in den Schnee. Hier bei einer Heli-Ski-Tour in Island im Mai 2023.
After her active professional career from 1961 to 1967, skiing also brought her to Australia, where she worked as a ski instructor. At the same time, she made a career in marketing for a ski binding company and spent several years in Japan, where she later founded her own consulting firm and wrote various books and articles for newspapers - including during the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano.
Ihr eigenes abenteuerreiches Leben, das sie von Österreich nach Australien, Japan und um die halbe Welt brachte, hielt Christina von Ditfurth in ihrer Autobiografie „Die Welt ist meine Heimat“ fest.
In 2021, she published her book “Here I Am Again” - a story about the incredible story of her grandmother Baroness Luisella von Schönberg. She spent over a decade after the end of the Second World War behind the Iron Curtain and survived, among other things, 6 years in the Gulag before she managed to return to Austria in the mid-1950s.
Sie hatte ihrer Mutter versprochen, die alle Erzählungen der Großmutter detailliert festgehalten hatte, dass sie die Geschichte als Buch festhalten wird. Während der Pandemie präsentierte sich eine Gelegenheit und die Autorin nutzte die Zwangspause bestmöglich kreativ, um ihr Versprechen zu halten.
