Just under six weeks after the death of popular actor Horst Janson (1935-2025), his second wife, Monika Lundi (1942-2025), has passed away. According to a report by Bild newspaper, the actress, who was married to Janson from 1973 to 1976, died at the age of 82 in Munich.
Lundi is said to have spent her last days in a clinic, where she apparently passed away peacefully on Wednesday (February 26). She had been suffering from severe breathing problems and pneumonia. “Monika grew weaker by the day,” the newspaper quoted a friend of the actress.
Even after their divorce, the two remained on good terms. Lundi later married twice more—first to director Hartmut Griesmayr (79) and then, from 1989 until his death, to actor Hans Stetter (1927-2019). She is to be laid to rest next to his grave.
She Acted Alongside Roy Black
Lundi first made a name for herself as a photo model in the 1960s and landed a leading role in the 1968 film comedy Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up. She gained wider recognition through the TV series Von Liebe keine Rede (1971) and starred alongside Roy Black (1943-1991) in the 1972 Heimatfilm Grün ist die Heide.
In 1975, she recorded the song Wir wollen es haben, a German version of Paul Anka’s Having My Baby, with her ex-husband Horst Janson.
Monika Lundi made headlines in the late 1970s when she accused her colleague Burkhard Driest (1939-2020) of rape during an acting course in Santa Monica.
From the 1980s onward, Lundi frequently appeared on television, with roles in Tatort, Marienhof, and Der Bulle von Tölz, among others.
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