- Had two daughters, Anna and Therese, with Klaus Ackermann.
- Was, from 1983, a member of the GDR's Academy of Arts.
- Initially trained as a stenographer and secretary before studying acting at the film school in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1961 to 1963.
- Had her greatest early successes at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in plays by Schiller, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Hauptmann and Turgenev. Active there again between 1990 and 2004.
- Resides in Potsdam and has a second home on the island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea.
- A character actress in East German Defa films. Often active as a voice actress for radio plays, 1967-89. After unification, she became especially popular as co-star (with Harald Juhnke) in the German-Austrian film Der Trinker, adapted from a novel by Hans Fallada.
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