Background
She was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (modern Chemnitz) and initially competed for East Germany.
She was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (modern Chemnitz) and initially competed for East Germany.
Kohlisch competed in two Winter Olympics for the reunified Germany in the women"s singles event, finishing sixth in both 1992 and 1994. Kohilsch retired from luge in 1997, mainly to the competitiveness among her fellow German teammates, most notably Jana Bode, Erdmann, Silke Kraushaar, Barbara Niedernhuber, and Sylke Otto. Kohlisch switched to bobsleigh in 1998, competing at the FIBT World Championships.
She tried out for the German bobsleigh team to compete at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but finished third behind Erdmann and Sandra Prokoff (Sandra Kiriasis since late 2004).
Kohlisch now serves as a spokesperson for the International Luge Federation and has served as a spokesperson for the German luge team since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She is also responsible for physical education at Naval Academy Mürwik (Marineschule Mürwik), the German Naval Academy in Flensburg-Mürwik, Germany.