Life
Heino was born December 13, 1938 in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk, Germany to Henry and Francisca Kramm. His father was a Catholic dentist, his mother a Protestant. His grandfather was the organist at the Cathedral of Cologne. He also had two cousins who were Catholic priests. Heino's father died August 2, 1941 during the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Until 1945, Heino lived with his mother and his older sister Hannelore in Pomerania. In 1945 he began school in Großenhain (Saxony). After 1952 he went to in Düsseldorf where he initially trained as a baker and confectioner. In June, 1959, he married 18-year-old Henrietta Heppner. They had one son, Uwe, born in 1962 before subsequently divorcing. He married his second wife, Lilo Kramm, in 1965; their marriage ended in divorce in 1978. Lilo died of cancer on January 28, 2010.
In 1968, he became the father of an illegitimate daughter. The mother died in 1988, and the daughter in late November 2003, both by suicide.
He met his third wife Hannelore Auersperg in 1972 at the Miss Austria contest in Kitzbühel. They were married in April 1979, and she became his manager. The couple lives in Bad Münstereifel. In 2004, Hannelore had a heart attack, which was one reason Heino curtailed his career.
Heino suffers from exophthalmos due to Graves' disease. For this reason, he always wears very dark glasses in public, which have become part of his trademark appearance. Due to his light hair and skin, some initially believed he wore the glasses due to albinism.
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