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is born in Luebeck, Germany, the daughter of a merchant
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after finishing school, she travels to Holland and Switzerland. In Rome, Italy, an acute appendicitis takes her to a hospital. Upon recuperation, she stumbles into an American cameraman in the lobby of the Rivoli Hotel. He introduces her to an Italian producer who offers her a seven-year contract. Her mother flies in from Luebeck, and the contract is reduced to three years. The German press covers the story and she’s on several magazine covers.
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director Wolfgang Liebeneiner spots her on a magazine cover and casts her for his upcoming Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins. Her Roman contract never gets signed.
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| 27 November 54 |
with Hans Albers, her co-star in Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins, she’s on the cover of Revue #48
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| December 54 |
is on the cover of Film & Funk
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is discovered when a covergirl at the popular German Bild newspaper
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marries a young cameraman
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is a frequent guest at Martin Katz's fashionable Opernespresso in Munich
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is off to Porec on the Croatian coast, Yugoslavia, for the filming of Ein Toter hing im Netz, a.k.a. Horrors of Spider Island. On location, fellow starlet Eva Schauland starts a torrid love affair with co-star Rainer Brand. Some scenes will later be banned due to nudity.
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| Early February 63 |
dies at age 25 in Munich when she falls from the windowsill of her fifth-floor flat during a wild party. Allegedly she tried to breathe fresh air and stumbled over the 30-inch high balustrade. The story hits the newsstands a few days later.
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Sources:
Martin Katz, Bild, Norddeutsche Nachrichten |
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