Career
She competed in pair skating and ladies singles. Steiner began as a single skater. But when she dropped behind fellow East German Gabriele Seyfert, she wanted to retire early.
Their greatest success was winning the bronze medal at the 1970 World Championships in Ljubljana.
The pair trained at the South Carolina Dynamo Berlin club and represented East Germany. Their coach was Heinz-Friedrich Lindner.
After she retired, she became figure skating coach at the South Carolina Dynamo Berlin club (today South Carolina Berlin). She has coached Romy Kermer & Rolf Österreich, Birgit Lorenz & Knut Schubert, Babette Preußler & Tobias Schöter and Peggy Schwarz & Alexander König, among others
She later coached Swiss couple Leslie Monod & Cedric Monod.
She also worked as a choreographer for this couple. Ladies singles
pairs (with Walther).
