Doris Nefedov

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Doris Nefedov, née Treitz, (May 19, 1942 - July 31, 1969) was a German singer who performed under the stage name Alexandra.

Doris Treitz was born on May 19, 1942 in Heydekrug, Memelland (today: Šilutė, Lithuania). Her family moved to Hamburg. At age 19 she married a Russian, Nikolai Nefedov, who was 30 years older and enroute to emigration into the US. After their boy Alexander was born, the couple got a divorce and Nefedov went to America alone.

Alexandra's first hit single, "Zigeunerjunge" ("gypsy boy"), was released in 1967; several more followed, including "Sehnsucht" ("yearning"), "Schwarze Balalaika" ("black balalaika") and "Mein Freund, der Baum" ("my friend, the tree"). She performed songs in several other languages besides German as well, including French, English, Russian and Hebrew.

Alexandra and her mother died in a car accident near Tellingstedt, Holstein under unexplained circumstances on July 31, 1969 when they collided with a truck; her six year old son Alexander "Sascha" survived with minor injuries. She only recently had acquired a Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Coupé. The car might have had problems, and there was some speculation that the accident was sabotage.

She was buried at Munich's Westfriedhof, her tombstone is simply labelled "Alexandra".

A biography was published in 1999 by movie director Marc Boettcher; Boettcher received several anonymous threats while researching the circumstances of Alexandra's death, and announced that he would push for a new investigation of the circumstances of her death in 2004 after further research, citing former Stasi documents that revealed that her lover Pierre Lafaire was a US-American secret agent as well as testimonies contradicting the documented results of the original investigation.