In the words of one journalist, "Swoboda was not a cute Rousseauen creature" but rather "lost through sheer negligence, a most uncomfortably cut proletarian, a shadowy growth from the lowest depths, a discarded changeling from a stable full of city teenagers".
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)[1] After this performance, Swoboda played the role of nurse Riki in the premiere of Wolfgang Bauers Change (1969).
Swoboda became a popular folk actress and played alongside Heinz Petters, Dolores Schmidinger and Hilde Sochor as part of the famous Nestroy ensemble at the People's Theater in several productions, including Heimliches Geld, heimliche Liebe (Secret Money, Secret Love, 1972), Gegen Torheit gibt es kein Mittel (There Are No Means against Folly, 1973), Umsonst!
She brought out the main points in the premieres from Peter Turrini (Die Wirtin, (The Landlady) 1975), Walter Wippersberg (Was haben vom Lebe, (What a Life) 1976), Franz Xaver Kroetz (Nicht Fisch, nicht Fleisch (Not Fish, Not Meat) 1980), Heinz Rudolf Unger (Zwölfeläuten (The Twelfth Ring), 1984) and Felix Mitterer (Kein schöner Land (No Land more Beautiful), 1987).
Swoboda was known through television appearances, including as Frau Wybiral in Der neue Untermieter (The New Sublet) and in her role as groundskeeper Koziber in the cult classic, Kaisermühlen Blues.