Overview
- The identical twins died by assisted suicide on 17 November 2025, a process they arranged with an attending doctor and a jurist from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Humanes Sterben.
- They built more than six decades of fame as showgirls, winning international audiences from the Lido in Paris to appearances covered by Life magazine and shows in the United States.
- Born in Nerchau, Saxony, in 1936, the sisters overcame a troubled childhood with an abusive, alcoholic father and forged a near‑lifelong personal and professional partnership.
- They revised their wills in 2023 to spread planned gifts among several charities, and their separate urns were placed in their mother Elsa’s grave at Waldfriedhof Grünwald late in November 2025 after legal limits prevented a single common urn.
- Commemorative coverage on their 90th birthday recalls their public career and carefully managed final choices and may renew public attention to assisted‑dying practices and how famous figures shape legacy decisions.