Overview

• Her death on September 11 was confirmed by her son, musician Emanuel Hauptmann, who said she "lived a dream."
• She rose to prominence with the 1975 hit "Mein Kind" after beginning in 1965 as a ZDF announcer.
• She collaborated with producer Abi Ofarim and wrote for artists including Katja Ebstein, Daliah Lavi, Rex Gildo and Lena Valaitis.
• She acted in the TV series Monaco Franze and Kir Royal and later translated English-language musicals such as Dirty Dancing.
• She had recently lived in a senior residence in Bad Belzig; she was an unmarried single mother, a granddaughter of Nobel laureate Gerhart Hauptmann, and is survived by two granddaughters and a great-grandson.