Overview

• Meret Becker announced that her mother, beloved German actress Monika Hansen, died on June 26, 2025, at age 82 and described her as “the most beautiful woman in the world.”
• Under Becker’s Instagram post, actors including Katja Riemann, Nina Kronjäger and Alexandra Maria Lara expressed condolences and recalled moments of warmth and friendship.
• Hansen’s six-decade career began after she trained at Munich’s Otto-Falckenberg-Schule and saw her appear on stages from Berlin’s Schaubühne to the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.
• She collaborated with filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Luc Bondy and Rosa von Praunheim and was known for roles in “In weiter Ferne, so nah!” and episodes of Polizeiruf 110.
• The family has not disclosed a cause of death, and fans as well as industry figures continue to send messages of support.