I spent my youth
on the road.
"Skimarri" my parents called me. "Marri" with a fast R, this is how we back home tend to shorten Mariella. I grew up in a small village in an area called Odenwald, southern part of the German state Hessen, surounded by forest.
Being fast
My parents love the Alps, so we spent our holidays in the mountains, summer and winter. My dad made it happen that my polish mum started skiing when she was already mid thirties. I started skiing when I was 3 years old. Some years later I was ski racing. My parents spent time, money and nerves on making that dream happen. Driving six hours in one direction, every second weekend, every holiday. Skiing became my life and still is.
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Besides skiing my parents gave me the opportunity to dance ballett, learn the piano, play tennis, go hiking, participate in running competitions,... just to name a view.
Thank you both for that effort, which it was!
Often in a nine-seated bus with other boys and girls from our race team we spent 6 houres towards the alpes on fridays and 6 houres back on sundays. We missed classes and we did our home work in the car. We often trained at Kitzsteinhorn, Sölden, Pitztal or Stubaitail beside the races. I started ski racing when I was ten years old.
We were living a completely different life than the other kids from school and we knew it, which created even more team vibe. We were watching a lot of ski movies when we were not skiing. Those movies were representing our lifes more than our regular school days, or we liked to think like that at least. Haha. So I also started filming our journeys.
My love for sports combined with pictures started there.
We spent our nights in cheapest rooms rented out by farmers or old ladies who couldn't remember, which key was the one to our room. Often there was one shower with little water for 20 kids. Years later we stayed in hotels, but we still got up early on those weekends and holidays and went running before breakfast.
I am an only child, but I had my two cousins, who were like brothers to me. They lived just some streets away and because my grandparents lived in the same house as we did, they were there too, every day.
We had the most fun when we were challenging each other in what every came to mind: running above, around and under obstacles, playing racing games with a proper wheel and pedals on playstation, tennis, table tennis, inline skate races, drawing better then the others... everything we did, was a challenge against each other, but always in a good way: with a lot of fun, no tears, only pushing each other forward and supporting us.
I think we learned a lot from each other, at least I did. Both, Christian and Daniel, became successful tennis players. No suprise, because when they wanted something they pushed hard to get it.
Youth on the Road /
Ski Racing
I think we learned a lot from each other, at least I did. Both, Christian and Daniel, became successful tennis players. No suprise, because when they wanted something they pushed hard to get it.
Also now as a producer and sports model it feels normal for me to spend a lot of time in cars and hotels. It is like back then: long days and a crew that is pulling in the same direction, following the same goal.
After I finished school I knew one thing: I wanted to move to the mountains. I moved to Innsbruck, when I was 19 and it became my additional home.
10 years of ski racing led to three ski instructor qualifications, while I was studying management in Innsbruck. Studying took me a while. Skiing and taking pictures were much more interesting and of course all the other sports I was starting then.
Skiing Magazin and the ski brand Atomic asked me to model for them when I was 21 or so.
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