- In 2008, it surfaced that she had been in a relationship with radio and TV hostess Ramona Leiss for four years beginning in the late 1980s.
- She went on to study to become a medical assistant and passed the "MTA" exam in 1970. She then worked in the X-ray and biochemistry lab of the Georg-August University/Göttingen University.
- In 1979 she failed to qualify as a singer for the Eurovision Song Contest. With 'Goodbye chérie', written by Harold Faltermeyer, she finished 7th in th German national final that year.
- She founded a gospel choir in 1968.
- By the end of the 1970s she began to compose music. She started under the pseudonym "Hansi Echer".
- In 1978 singer Karel Gott performed her song "Where the Wind Blows the Leaves" ("Wohin der Wind die Blätter weht"). Before that she had already composed the song "60 Years and Not a Bit More" ("60 Jahre und kein bisschen weise") for the actor/singer Curd Jürgens to along with his biography.
- She was a German pop singer (genre known as "schlager" in German), composer, writer, producer, and sound engineer.
- She also wrote Planet of blue for Leon, who won the German final in 1996, but failed to qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest in the audio-qualification round that year.
- After completing school in 1968, she went on to study athletics, but had to give that up due to a serious illness.
- Her musical career began in 1971. Producer Georg Moslener produced the single Frühling in Vietnam with her, which, however, did not go through. She learned to play the piano and was able to record her first album Applaus für Hanne Haller in 1971. However, this work was never released on the market, as the record label went bankrupt.
- She continued to write, produce and perform throughout the 80s and 90s despite battling breast cancer since the mid-90s.
- In 1979 she had the chance to sing before a wider audience. She took the song "Goodbye, Chérie" to the German qualification of the Eurovision Song Contest and managed a seventh-place finish. After that she made more recordings, mostly with Bernd Meinunger writing the lyrics. Their song "Samstag Abend" made it to number 11 on the German musical charts. In 1982 she and Meinunger founded their own musical publishing house. Haller produced songs in her own recording studio. That year, she won her first of many "Golden Tuning Forks" ("Goldene Stimmgabel", the German version of the Grammy awards).
- In 1985, Haller founded the band Wind. She didn't perform for the group herself, but she composed what has become the group's signature song, "For All" ("Für alle"). The same year, the song earned Wind a second-place finish in the Eurovision Song Contest. After this success, she wrote songs for Daliah Lavi, Elke Martens, Katja Ebstein, Rex Gildo, Lena Valaitis, Caterina Valente, Jürgen Drews, Ingrid Peters, Wolfgang Fierek, and Milva. She also discovered Rosanna Rocci.
- While in school she played drums for "The Rooks" in the town of Ronnenberg near Hannover.
- Her mother was an opera singer, her father a banker.
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