 Her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the NDR symphony orchestra, and founder of the "Hamann Quartet"; her mother was a singer and music teacher, and her brother Gerhard was a professor of cello at the Trossingen School of Music.Evelyn Hamann liked to keep her private life out of the public eye, so little is known about her life off-camera.Between 1964 and 1976 she was married to Hans Walter Braun, whom she met while acting in Hamburg.