In Austria and Switzerland, it failed to chart. LaFee subsequently left her manager Bob Arnz. Her musicians left the group in December 2009 with an announcement on their websites to form a new project, due to different musical orientations. 2011–2012: Frei On 4 June 2011, LaFee presented a new single, "Ich bin" ("I Am"), at the German show The Dome. It was available on 10 June 2011, and EMI stated on its official site that her new album Frei would be released on 1 July 2011. In an interview with the German tabloid magazine Bild, LaFee said that this new album was very important to her because she had changed a lot since her previous album. She further explained the reasons behind this break; saying that she was tired of always being away from home and her friends. She was just a teenager when she began her career and had grown up so fast, without time to think whether she had missed something or not. She admitted she could think about nothing but sleeping for days. So she had split with her old team, her old band and her old manager, and had asked her label to change her contract and she was lucky because they agreed. Finally, she stated that now she's ready to come back with new songs (she wrote three songs by herself and co-wrote another two), themes closer to her like love and growing up with a new, more mature look. Until the end of March 2012, LaFee took part in the KiKa show Dein Song as a music sponsor. Her song "Zeig dich!" was the theme song for the movie Hanni & Nanni 2. It was released as a single on 11 May 2012. The song did not reach a chart position. In September 2012, LaFee appeared in the German edition of the men's magazine Playboy. She also released the single "Flip Flop (Can't Help Myself)". This was a free download in September 2012 from the Playboy website; the first 10,000 visitors of the site were able to download this one-track file for free. From mid-November to late December 2012, LaFee played the role of "Angel" and "Belle" in the musical Vom Geist der Weihnacht (A Christmas Carol) in Essen. 2014–2018: Acting, biography and new songs From 22 October 2014 to 23 October 2017, LaFee played the role of Iva Lukowski in the RTL soap