One year later, Helga Brauer scored the first number one hit in the GDR pop rankings with Heute spielt der Konstantin Klavier.
[1] In 1960, Helga Brauer married the composer, arranger and trumpeter Walter Eichenberg, who took over the direction of the Leipzig Radio Dance Orchestra in 1961 and also wrote numerous successful titles for the singer such as Hör' mein Herz, Das Tagebuch vom schönen Max, Mit dem strahlendsten Lächeln der Welt and Einer ist für den andern da.
Tours abroad in the 1960s took Helga Brauer to the Soviet Union, the Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Sweden, Finland and Egypt.
In the 70s and 80s, the singer was not only a guest on the big entertainment shows on GDR television such as Amiga-Cocktail, Ein Kessel Buntes or Da liegt Musike drin, but also on numerous stages.
[2] Helga Brauer died in Leipzig of breast cancer at the age of 55 and was buried in the Südfriedhof in her home town.