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.

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.

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.

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