Margot Werner

Margot Werner (8 December 1937 – 1 July 2012) was an Austrian ballet dancer, chanson singer, and actress. During her career, she was both the principal dancer at the Bavarian State Ballet, and a soloist at the Bavarian State Opera and Munich Philharmonic. She released several albums, and is best known for her 1977 hit, "So ein Mann" ("That Kind of Man"). Werner performed in a number of television shows and films, and in the 1970s had her own television show, The Margot Werner Show.

Early life Werner was born in Salzburg. Her father was a merchant, and her mother was a concert pianist.

Career Ballet Werner began training in ballet at the age of five, with the children's ballet of the Bavarian State Opera, and performed in productions of Hansel and Gretel, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Rosenkavalier. At 16, she was engaged as a ballet dancer with the Bavarian State Ballet, and became their principal dancer, or prima ballerina at the age of 20. Werner performed frequently with her long-term dance partner, Heinz Bosl, until his death from leukemia at the age of 28.

She made her film debut in 1963, in Weekend in Schwarz-Weiss, but is best known for her performance in the 1976 film . Werner received a Golden Europe Award for new performer for this film, and the film itself received the German Film Award.

Awards During her career, Werner received the Schwabing Arts Award and the Trude Hesterberg Ring.

Personal life and death Werner initially married the German actor, Peter Pasetti, but they were later divorced. She married Jochen Litt in 1978, and divided her time between a hotel he owned in the Tyrol, and Munich. In 2003, Werner invested a significant part of her own wealth into Litt's hotel, but the business failed, resulting in Werner's bankruptcy. Werner died at the age of 74, after falling from the third floor of Munich's Bogenhausen Hospital, where she was being treated for nerve damage in her shoulder. The cause of her death was later confirmed as suicide.