For more than forty years, Elke Sommer has been living on two continents: in the elegant community of Holmby Hills over the rooftops of Los Angeles and in the rural idyll of the village of Marloffstein in front of the gates of Erlangen.


She is married to the love of her life, by now retired hotel manager Wolf Walther, and together with her husband she is living her love for animals, sports, and mother nature.


On the following pages, you can read a detailed biography and get the opportunity to find very personal information. Furthermore, you will have access to the most interesting interviews from five decades of peaceful coexistence with the international news media.


In addition, you will have the chance to browse through comprehensive picture galleries with series of strictly private as well as highly official photos from more than one hundred motion picture, television, and stage productions.