- Returned to Germany with her longtime companion Samuel Bawesi and planned her comeback in 1991, but died shortly after in Southern France.
- After appearing on over 30 movies, she finally moved to the Fiji Islands for health reasons and cultivated mushrooms there (1987).
- As her father was member of the communist party, the Nazis imprisoned him in a concentration camp until 1945.
- Brunette, plump comic actress, all-round entertainer, singer and drama coach. She was the daughter of a locomotive driver whose membership in the Communist Party led to his internment in a concentration camp by the Nazi regime. Her career took off in 1957, when she joined the Berlin cabaret 'Tingel-Tangel'. She scored a big hit on the German pop charts and subsequently emerged as a popular TV personality on chat shows and variety programs. Between 1977 and 1986, she operated her own stage company in Cologne.
- The song "Ich will keine Schokolade" (I don't want chocolate) was her national breakthrough in Germany (1959).
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