- Received the City of Leipzig's new bi-annual Caroline-Neuber-Preis, an award honoring women who fairly contributed to German speaking stage acting (January 1998).
- She taught acting at the Hamburg School of Music and Theater from 1993 to 2006. Her most prominent students were Bibiana Beglau, Marie Bäumer and Marc Hosemann.
- Has two children, Katharina (with Herrmann Zschoche) and Valentin (with Nicolaus Haenel).
- As she was one of many artists supporting songwriter Wolf Biermann against the communist regime in East Germany, she emigrated to West Germany in 1982.
- Studied acting at the School for Film and Television in Potsdam from 1959 to 1962.
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