Background
She grew up in Salzburg, Austria, where actor Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the Salzburg Festival.
She grew up in Salzburg, Austria, where actor Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the Salzburg Festival.
She later portrayed Anna Frank at the Schiller theater in Berlin, but her breakthrough in cinema was her role in the 1957 remake of Victor and Victoria. She has appeared in 60 films and television shows since 1955. She starred in the film Mississippi, which was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.
After a brief marriage with film director Dietrich Haugk which ended in divorce in 1961, Johanna von Koczian was married to music producer Wolf Kabitzky, who died in July 2004.
She is the mother of German actress Alexandra von Koczian.