Overview
- Germany’s Bild first reported that Alice and Ellen Kessler died together at age 89, with other outlets quickly echoing the news.
- Munich police confirmed a deployment in Grünwald but declined to share further information on what occurred.
- Coverage from tz.de reports the sisters were found lifeless in a Munich apartment, with no additional circumstances disclosed.
- The twins were born in 1936 in Nerchau, trained in ballet, and rose to international fame after early engagements at Düsseldorf’s Palladium and Paris’s Lido.
- In a 2024 interview, they expressed a wish to be united in death, a sentiment they said was set out in their will.