She was born in Hamburg in 1921. She attended dance lessons from an early age under Konrad Schwarzer and Helga Swedlud. She then studied at the Hamburg State Opera, and took choreography lessons at a Mary Wigman school branch (1938-39), as well as in Berlin under Russian Eugenie Edvardova. She worked with the Hamburg State Opera as a dancer, principal dancer and teacher. She moved to Greece in 1947, and until 1975 she worked with the GNO as dancer and choreographer in approximately 100 productions and/or revivals. She choreographed the ballets Spring (Vivaldi) and Polovtsian dances (Borodin), while she danced in The pedlar (Grimanis/Petridis), The death of the brave woman (Grimanis/Kalomiris), Symposium Strauss (Kirsanova/Johann Strauss), Suite of Spanish dances (Kirsanova/Albéniz), etc. She also choreographed ballet segments in the operas Un ballo in maschera, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Giovanni, L'amour des trois oranges, Kassiani, Un capello di paglia di Firenze, Aida, Queen of Spades and Der Freischütz. In addition, she choreographed the operettas Die Csardasfürstin, Kiss me Kate, La belle Hélène, The godson, Ein Walzertraum, Frederica, Das Land des Lächelns, The little Dutch girl, Gräfin Mariza etc. In the period from 1947 to 1953 she danced in about 70 ballet, opera and operetta productions and/or revivals. During the 30-year period from 1947 to 1997, she taught dance and rhythmic gymnastics at the National Theatre Drama School. She married twice, one to tenor Alekos Tsoukalas and another to conductor Walter Pfeffer. // Last update of the biography: November 2023 - The list of productions below is continually updated.