Trivia

Gave birth to her daughter Maxie, whose father is her fourth husband Peter Renner, in 1985.

Although not being member of the communist party, she was one of East German state leader Erich Honecker's favorite artists.

Built a duo with Siegfried Uhlenbrock between 1969 and 1975, their most successful song was "Du hast gelacht" ("You laughed", 1971).

After she had been trained to be a pharmacy technician, she studied at the School of Music Hanns Eisler in Berlin.