Prolific German character actress, especially well known in her native Hamburg where she holds the sobriquet as 'the grand old dame' of the Ohnsorg Theater (ensemble member from 1981). Also active from the mid-50s as a narrator of radio series. Popular on television in such children's series as Neues vom Süderhof (1991-1997) und Die Kinder vom Alstertal (1998-2004).