In the 1920s she performed on stage both in Germany and overseas, including the role of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and in productions of Die Fledermaus and Moreto's opera Donna Diana.

She developed agreements with the Model Airplane League of America and the Gimbel Company, and planned an itinerary to visit 12 cities.

[2] In May 1932 Strassmann became the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean aboard an aircraft, travelling on a Dornier Do X flying boat.

She left Germany on board a Zeppelin, with a dismantled Klemm sports plane in the cargo hold, and travelled to Pernambuco in Brazil.

From there, she completed a marketing tour through South America for the Klemm sports aircraft company, with stops and flight performances in Recife, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires.

In 1943 an old friend offered her a management position running a sales office for the hearing aid division of Zenith Radio Corporation in New York City.

[1] She was then involved with a former Crown Prince, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, for a year, and later had a relationship with the Austrian actor Rudolf Forster followed by the exhibition pilot Ernst Udet.