She was born Helga Scherz in Innsbruck, to an Austrian father and a German mother, and she grew up in Ruhpolding and Bielefeld after her parents divorced.
[citation needed] Anders is best known in Great Britain for her part in the Yugoslav-West German television series The White Horses, and is also remembered for playing several roles in the German TV series Derrick.
[citation needed] She had a daughter, Tatjana Leslie, with the actor Roger Fritz.
on the cover page of the West German magazine Stern on 6 June 1971.
In that issue, 374 women publicly stated that they had had pregnancies terminated, which at that time was illegal.