In 2008, it surfaced that she had been in a relationship with radio and TV hostess Ramona Leiss for four years beginning in the late 1980s.
She went on to study to become a medical assistant and passed the "MTA" exam in 1970. She then worked in the X-ray and biochemistry lab of the Georg-August University/Göttingen University.
In 1979 she failed to qualify as a singer for the Eurovision Song Contest. With 'Goodbye chérie', written by Harold Faltermeyer, she finished 7th in th German national final that year.
She founded a gospel choir in 1968.
By the end of the 1970s she began to compose music. She started under the pseudonym "Hansi Echer".