Overview
- DGHS confirmed that Alice and Ellen Kessler, 89, died by assisted suicide at their home in Grünwald on November 17, 2025.
- Media reports, led by Bild and summarized by GALA.de, say the twins were interred in a private urn burial at Waldfriedhof Grünwald in their mother Elsa’s grave.
- Reports describe the ceremony as intentionally quiet and without mourners, with claims they had no surviving relatives attributed to tabloid sourcing.
- Ellen Kessler had told Bild in April 2024 that the sisters had arranged to be “united in death,” a wish reported as formalized in their testament.
- The twins, born in Nerchau in 1936, were internationally known singers and dancers whose decades-long career spanned the Paris Lido, television, film and musical theater.