After retiring from acting in 1976, she worked as a saleswoman.
During the shooting of Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960), she suffered severe injuries in a road accident, which meant the end of her movie career at that time.
Has a son, Benjamin, whose father is an American director.
Lives on a farm in the Uckermarck, Germany with her second husband.
One of the few West Germans, who emigrated to East Germany in the Cold War era (1979).