Her father regarded acting as an unsuitable profession but eventually allowed her to join the Royal Danish Theatre after talking to its general director Edvard Fallesen.

[1] At the Royal Theatre, Anna Lindemann was a student of Emil Poulsen and debuted in 1885 as Titania in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[1] Literary historian Peter Hansen [da] credits her with the "phenomenal run of 31 performances" of this modernised revival of the 1826 original.

[10] She found herself typecast as the young girl or woman, even playing the fourteen-year-old Hedevig in Ibsen's The Wild Duck in 1921 at the age of 53.

[12] Danish literary critic Johannes Riis [da] refers to Bloch as the Royal Theatre's "foremost naturalist actor" of the time.