Hailing from Templin, she initially prepared for a career as a medical technologist in Stuttgart before turning to the stage, studying acting under Ernst Fritz Fürbringer in Munich and debuting at a Kassel theater in 1967. A breakthrough arrived with the lead in Peter Fleischmann’s Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (1969), after which Peter Stein invited her to join the Berliner Schaubühne, where she re…
