Purchased a castle in France, the Château de Costaérès, where he moved
with his second wife to live.
After having problems with the communist regime, he fled East Germany
in 1958.
There are reports that he had another daughter, Laura Maria Heid (b. 1990), with Maria Heid; but Hallervorden gives the number of his children as three.
Although being a respected TV actor and cabaret artist for decades, he
is still best known for playing chaotic and annoying slapstick
characters on Nonstop Nonsens (1975) and Die Didi-Show (1989).
Voiced Vlad in the German dub of Hotel Transylvania 2.
Admitted himself to a hospital in 2022 for 21 days over suicidal ideation.