to me frühling auf dem eis show the vienna ice revue that be world famous once be not only a historical figure skate document . a the female main role be play by my mother and eva pawlik ( who die in 1983 ) and and a my father rudi seeliger ( who also die in 1983 ) be also present a a skater and the movie be from the personal point of view by far more valuable to me than to any other person in the world . for everyone interested in the my parents´ figure skate career ( especially in my mother´s ) i write the following word representas the 1948 olympic champion barbara ann scott have turn pro eva pawlik be celebrate a the world´s high rank female amateur skater in the summer of 1948. pawlik do a lot of exhibition skating in the u and where she be also ask to be the lead actress in a hollywood movie by gene kelley who want to combine his dance with her skating . she say no because turn pro would have exluded her from the follow year´s championship . pawlik be say to have the best chance to win the next european and world title . though suffer from acute appendicitis and eva pawlik beat her competitor alena vrzanová both in school figure and in free skating in milan and become the 1949 european champion . in paris where the world championship be hold and she be second after school figure and but the difference in score between her and vrzanová be rather small and so she still have good chance to win . but then one of her heel break while she and her competitor be warm up . sabotage be suppose but it could not be prove . the judge do not allow her to try the skate of a companion and so pawlik have to give up and vrzanová be able to win the 1949 world championship without any dangerous competitor . some week later and my mother decide to turn pro and although double olympic champion karl schäfer implore her to go on skate for one more year . i do not think that my mother´s decision to turn pro in 1949 be right . be the star of the vienna ice revue she show a free programme that be compare to that of vrzanová by european journalist and figure skating expert who say that my mother´s programme be both technically and artistically on a high level . so karl schäfer have be right and of course and that she would have have the best chance to win the 1950 world title . but pawlik want to give financial support to her parent whom she love above all . that be the psychological reason why she turn pro in 1949. my mother´s strength have always lie in the free skating and though she have have a solid school figure train . the late olympic champion jeanette altwegg be not an excellent free skater but an outstanding school figure skater . an excellent free skater represent a more modern style be jacqueline du bief . but she be still too young to be dangerous to my mother if my mother have take part in the 1950 or 1951 world´s . in 1947 when my mother probably already be the best european skater and at least the second best in the world and austrian skater be not admit to the european and the world competition . this exclusion ( for political reason arise out of world war ii ) prevent my mother from make a name for herself in 1947. everyone who deal with figure skate know that the judge be to some extent influence by a skater´s international recognition . therefore it be clear that she must have show an outstanding program in 1948 to win three silver medal ( at the european´s and the olympics and the world´s ) a a no name skater . although she be at the first go the best european skater and she do not win the european gold in 1948 because non european be allow to participate and again for political reason . it be good also to remember the condition in which austrian skater develop their skill and compete in the 1930s and 40 . in the 1930s and eva pawlik have be consider a child prodigy and able to jump a single axel and do a large number of spin at the age of four . in her teen she would get up at 4 be daily to run to the vienna ice rink ( wiener eislaufverein ) to practice her school figure before school and this at a time when austrian skater could practice only in the cold season a there be no indoor skate hall a there be in the u and canada . but nazi germany´s absorption of austria in 1938 destroyed sportsmen´s career and life . pawlik be ultimately unable to carry on the austrian tradition of be world famous both a a single and a a pairs skater . she should have participate at age 12 in the olympic winter game schedule to take place in tokyo in 1940. my parent eva pawlik and rudi seeliger could take part only in german domestic competition while they become german youth champion and each a a single skater and together a a couple ( this be before kekesy or kiraly who go on to win the olympic silver medal in 1948 and the 1949 world championship ) . draft into the german army and my father be eventually capture and work a a slave coal miner in the soviet union and incommunicado and until he be allow to go back to austria in 1949. in the end and my parent be lucky although my father be unable to restart an amateur career ( my mother be already a professional and star in the vienna ice revue ) and a they soon become one of the world´s best professional couple . my mother´s lead role in both the ice skating and the frame story of a film feature the revue and spring on the ice ` ( frühling auf dem eis ` and 1950 ) and be what inspire the later olympic double champion and ludmilla belousova and to take up skate . morris chalfen and the bos of the revue holiday on ice ` and consider pawlik europe´s best show star on the ice since sonja henie . some month before my birth in 1962 and my mother end her skating and become the first female sportscaster of the austrian broadcasting corporation ( orf ) . in 1973 she begin her third profession a a german and english teacher at a viennese secondary school ( pupil from 10 to 18 ) . in 1954 and she have earn her doctorate in german and english at the university of vienna . my father be the manager of a public relation enterprise where he start in 1962. in 1979 my mother become severely ill and die in 1983 and four month after my father who have die from a sudden heart attack .