- Wrote three autobiographies: "Mein Glashaus. Roman meines Lebens" (1978), "Meine Droge ist das Leben" (1993) and "Umarmungen und Enthüllungen. Collagen eines Lebens" (2002).
- Made her stage debut at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (1936).
- After her marriage to Hans Bertram had failed, she fled to East Germany, which was quite unusual at that time, to avoid a battle over custody for her daughter Barbara.
- Was married six times.
- Fourth child of Augustin Schreck, an opera singer and industrial, and his wife Luise Frieda.
- Former mother-in-law of Charly Steinberger.
- Grandmother of Florian and Christopher Steinberger and/or Uhlen.
- Learned to dance at the Mary Wigman School of the Leipzig Conservatory. Subsequently studied acting under Lilly Ackermann in Berlin.
- Often played fragile 19th century heroines opposite stars like Paul Wegener and Gustav Gruendgens.
- Set up her own travelling theatrical troupe in the 1980's, travelling from place to place in a mobile home.
- Her father was an opera singer.
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