Erika Pluhar is an actress, singer and author from Austria. Erika Pluhar studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, the Viennese academy for music and the performing arts. She went into acting at the Burgtheater, the imperial court theatre, where she was a member of the acting troupe from 1959 until 1999. At the beginning of the 1970s Erika Pluhar embarked on a singing career. Erika Pluhar has been married twice (with Udo Proksch and André Heller, 1970–84, poet and all-round artist)