Her supportive parents are Sabine, an Austrian from Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, and her father, a German windsurfer named Dietmar "Didi" Kornelli.
[1][2][3] Her elder brother Julian Kornelli [de] became an ice hockey player in Germany.
[1] At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics she competed for Germany in the IKA Twin Tip Racing discipline and finished fourth.
[6] The last five places were awarded at the Last Chance Regatta to the Swiss surfer Elena Lengwiler, Julia Damasiewicz of Poland, the Turkish Derin Atakan, Mafalda Pires de Lima of Portugal and Kornelli.
[7] In the World Championship in Hyère, her sailing was at times competitive, but inconsistency gave her a position of 17th.