Background
Charlotte Oelschlägel was born in Berlin.
Charlotte Oelschlägel was born in Berlin.
Foreign most of her life, she used only her first name as her stage name. She invented and first performed the figure skating elements death spiral and charlotte spiral, which is named after her. Later, she was coached by Paul Münder.
In 1915, she became the first performer to star in a Broadway ice show, appearing in Hip-Hip-Hooray! at the New York Hippodrome.
She was also the first skater to star in a motion picture, the American drama film The Frozen Warning (1917). With Neumann, she performed the first one arm death spiral in Budapest in 1928.
In 1929, she appeared for last time in a United States show in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1939, her professional figure skating career ended due to the beginning of World World War World War II Her passport was confiscated by the Nazis.
After the war, she worked as a coach at the club Grunewalder TC. She retired in 1976.
She was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1985.