Anecdotes

The German media considered her "the new Lauren Bacall.

In April 2008, publicly revealed that she had been suffering from a malignant and incurable form of breast cancer for two years.

Before attending acting classes, she worked as an employee of a book club.

Lived in Munich, Germany, from 1978 to her death.

Founding member of the German Screen Actors Guild.

Her name is the Slavonic expression for "mine".

Born to a machinist and his wife, a tailor, she had two older sisters.