Biography
First Name: Anna Carolina Last Name: Hermann
Birthday/Place: January, 3, 1988 / Wuppertal
Hometown: Dortmund / Sprockhövel
Height: 166 cm
Home Rink: Dortmund
Club: ERC Westfalen Kunstlauf Dortmund e.V.
School: Goethe Gymnasium Dortmund
Favorite Music: Current Charts
Favorite Skater: Magarita Drobiazko & Povilas Vanagas
Hobbies: Sports, friends
First Name: Daniel Felix
Last Name: Hermann
Birthday/Place: Oktober 12, 1986 / Wuppertal
Hometown: Dortmund / Sprockhövel
Height: 183 cm
Home Rink: Dortmund
Club: ERC Westfalen Kunstlauf Dortmund e.V.
Graduation: Graduated from the Goethe Gymnasium 2006, now student at the BiTS in Iserlohn
Favorite Movie/Series: Seven Years in Tibet, Saw 1-2, Spider-Man 1-2, Schindler's List, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Friends
Favorite Music: James Blund, Katie Melua and everything else but Hip-Hop und Techno
Favorite Skaters: Albena Denkova & Maxim Staviski, Isabell Delobel & Olivier Schoenferlder, Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat
Hobbies: Friends, music and dancing
Our Coaches:
Coaches: Vitali Schultz, Rostislav Sinitzyn
Ballet Coache: Hussan Usmanov
Conditioning Training: Erika Riesenweber
Former Coaches: Ulf Jagals, Oleg Ryjkin
Unser Werdegang:
On January 3, 1988, Carolina was born in Wuppertal, her brother Daniel about a
year earlier on October 12, 1986, also in Wuppertal. They grew up in a large family with five
other siblings in Herzkamp (Sprockhövel).
Everything started in the winter of 1991: on a frozen lake close to their home, Carolina and Daniel learned their first steps on the ice.
In 1994, at the age of seven and eight years respectively, they joined the Solinger Turnerbund, a sports club with skating facilities, so that they could also pursue their passion during the warmer seasons. Moreover, the two were then allowed to take part in the club championships and in the yearly show "Christmas Magic on Ice," which they did successfully.
At first they both tried singles skating before they discovered ice dancing at the beginning of the 1997 season. As a result they changed to the Olympic traningscenter for skating in Dortmund in order to train five times a week. Here they trained under the responsibility of Oleg Ryjkin, who also coached the siblings Christina and William Beier, as well as Stefanie and Thomas Rauer.
In the same season, 1997-1998, the two of them entered ice dancing competitions.
The very first competition was called Amberger Eistanzfestival.
A promising ice dance career
started when they won their first competition afterwards, the
Wiehl Pokal.
In this season they were also runners-up in the juvenile competition at the Regional Championships in North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 1999 they achieved the same placement in the pre-novice competition.
In 2000, Carolina and Daniel achieved the 3rd place at the German Novice Championships in Berlin.
As the youngest participants they were accompanied by the children's TV channel "Kinderkanal"
for an episode of the show "Logo." (Here you can watch this episode.)
At this time Carolina and Daniel had a guest appearance at "Holiday on Ice" in front of almost 5,000 spectators.
In the following years, Carolina and Daniel successfully took part in international competitions in Tallinn, Olomouc, Vienna and Dortmund. Furthermore, they could call themselves Regional Champions 2002 and they won the Novice Trophy as well.
From the 2003 season on, they competed at the junior level. They made the
German national team and could skate in the top ten at international Junior
Grand Prix events in Mexico, Sofia, Belgrade, Gdansk and Chemnitz.
The enormous amount of training time and the daily travel time called for personal changes as well. In 2003, just at age 15 and 16, they moved out of their parents' house to live closer to the rink in Dortmund. They moved into an "apartment-sharing skating community" with their friend and training partner Tim Giesen, as well as pairs coach Knut Schubert, and Ekaterina Vasilieva.
At the Olympic Games in Torino 2006, Carolina and Daniel were allowed to attend the official Olympic
Youth Camp and could thus experience the "Olympic spirit" live with 40 other selected young competitive
athletes from different disciplines. Besides visiting the Olympic Village and the German house,
they met many athletes, among others Rosi Mittermaier, Georg Hackl and Katarina Witt.
In spring Carolina and Daniel were voted "Team of the Year 2005" by the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis.
Because of their placements in the previous years, they were ranked #56 in the official ISU World Standings. (As of the end of the 2007-2008 season, they climbed to #39 (out of 127)!) www.isufs.org/ws/wsdance.htm
In January 2007 the siblings reached an eagerly awaited goal and became the German
Junior Champions after having missed the title by .13 points the year before.
Therefore they were allowed to represent Germany as the only team at the 2007 World
Junior Championships in February in Oberstdorf.
Carolina: "After we have been substitutes for the World Junior Championships three times
and twice the runners-up at the German Junior Championships, we can finally take part in the World Junior Championships."
For many years the German ice dancers had not been placed in the top ten. Carolina and Daniel reached their goal at first go. Due to their achievement, Germany received two spots at the following Junior Worlds.
In the 2007-2008 season they were promoted to the next level and will from now on represent the German Skating Union at the senior level.
The first season at this level went very well. Carolina, now 20 years old, and Daniel, 21, could
compete in their first Senior Grand Prix and finished 8th with a score of 136.11 points. They improved through
as the season proceeded, though, reached the 2nd place at the Pavel Roman Memorial and skated to
a personal best with 153.18 points! This continued with a similar score at the German Championships
where they were only 16 points behind the German top team!
In the coming season they will do their utmost to continue their successes and even to surpass them...
