Began to train in ballet at age 10 and later studied under Tatjana Gsovsky in Berlin.
Delicately lovely, dark-haired and innocent-looking German star of post-WWII romance films and musicals.
Following the suicide of her second husband in 1969, she became the constant companion of Martinius Adolff. He perished in an airplane crash in 1974.
Good friends with Hildegard Knef, Pamela Wedekind and Charles Regnier. Three years after Wedekind's death, she married her husband Charles Regnier.
Her father was a tax consultant.
Her only child, Pierre, died of cancer at the age of 16, just seven months after his stepfather Marek Hlasko's suicide (1970).
Her roles in simple, sentimental movies such as Schwarzwaldmädel (1950) and The Heath Is Green (1951) made her one of the first stars of Germany's post war cinema.
Lives at the Tegernsee (lake) in Bavaria and Davos, Switzerland.