Won a singing competition in Vienna at the age of 15 which led to recording her first single record with HMV. Subsequent recording contracts with Electrola and Decca.
Daughter of a postal worker (as Hannelore Kramm).
Her first husband (from 1968) was the aristocrat Alfred Eduard Friedrich von Auersperg (1936-1992).
Studied for four years in Linz, Austria, at the Federal Trade School for Fashion and Commercial Graphics.
She was an Austrian Schlager singer and film actress who managed the German singer Heino.