 In 1978, she recorded Requiem compositions by Max Reger, including his "Hebbel-Requiem" and the unfinished "Dies Irae", with the NDR Chor and the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Roland Bader.In 1941, at 20 years of age she married conductor Theodor Egel (1915-1993) while still in Mülheim an der Ruhr.She had 4 children, Hans-Peter (1941), Martin (1944), Barbara and Thomas (1947).