- She became popular again for a 1977 satirical schlager, "Das bißchen Haushalt ... sagt mein Mann" (The little bit of housework ... says my husband), after singing it in Dieter Thomas Heck's Hitparade show.
- Had a major hit single in the Germany and Austria with her song "Das bißchen Haushalt", mocking about a macho husband's attitude towards a homemaker's duties (1977).
- Author of successful children's books and novels.
- Had her breakthrough when Gustaf Gründgens gave her a role at the Salzburg Theater Festival.
- Born to Gustav von Koczian-Miskolczy, an Austrian soldier and film producer, and his wife Lydia Alexandra, she grew up in Austria.
- Studied at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum in Salzburg.
- Mother of Alexandra von Koczian.
- Other popular songs of her include "Aufsteh'n ist schön" and "Ganz der Vater" (both released in 1978).
- Had her first success on the Berlin stage in 1956 as Anne Frank.
- Has played anything from naive ingénues to baronesses, officer's daughters, socialites and seductresses.
- Won a German film critic's prize for her performance in Wir Wunderkinder (1958).
- She had her first film role in the 1957 film Victor and Victoria, and her breakthrough a year later in Wir Wunderkinder which earned her a German Film Award.
- She starred in the 1957 remake of Victor and Victoria, alongside Georg Thomalla and Johannes Heesters.
- She grew up in Salzburg where Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the 1951 Salzburg Festival, and she played at several German theaters.
- As a dubbing actor, she was the German voice of Elizabeth Taylor and Bibi Andersson, among others.
- Her breakthrough in film was in 1958 her role in Kurt Hoffmann's "Wir Wunderkinder" alongside Hansjörg Felmy, which earned her a German Film Award and the Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik.
- Von Koczian moved to a nursing home in the Grunewald district in 2017, withdrawing from public life.
- In the late 50's she was named "the German Audrey Hepburn".
- She has been working as a writer since 1977, initially as an author of children's and young adult literature. Based on her two novellas (Abenteuer in der Vollmondnacht and Der geheimnisvolle Graf , Adventures on the Night of the Full Moon and The Mysterious Count), the thirteen-part television series On the Road to Atlantis (Unterwegs nach Atlantis) was created in 1982, and as a sequel she wrote the young adult novel Escape from the Island ( Flucht von der Insel).
- In 2010, at age 77, she portrayed Florence Foster Jenkins, "the worst opera singer in the world", in the comedy Glorious! at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin to great success.
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