Overview
- Her death on Wednesday, January 21, was confirmed by her family to dpa, and her husband said she died of cancer.
- The 1.49-meter-tall performer, widely known as “die Lütte,” gained enduring recognition through her voice on Reinhard Lakomy’s million-selling children’s record Traumzauberbaum.
- Feeling constrained in the GDR, she applied to emigrate in 1984 and left in 1985, then earned acclaim in the West as Lucy in The Threepenny Opera at Berlin’s Theater des Westens.
- After reunification she returned frequently to eastern stages and worked across theater and film, including a role in Rosa von Praunheim’s Der Einstein des Sex.
- She revealed a breast cancer diagnosis in 2021 and later said she completed chemotherapy in November 2022.