Her father died during the Second World War in the Battle of France,[1] and her mother married the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
[2] Growing up in Lausanne, Ackermann graduated from the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich.
She recently gained new popularity in episodes of the crime series Tatort as the mother of Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm, played by her real-life daughter Maria Furtwängler.
Ackermann teaches acting at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich in the musical course.
[3] She also voiced the goddess Athena in the German dub of Hercules: The Animated Series.