After training as an actor, she made her debut as Rosi in Hermann Sudermann's The Butterfly Battle in Berlin in 1930.

In the same year she received an engagement at the touring theater of the German Volksbühnenvereine Berlin.

In 1944 she was on the list of God-gifted people of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

She was soon set on the simple girl from the country and played, mostly in supporting roles and often with a pinch of comedy, maids, soldiers' brides, wives, housekeepers, secretaries and neighbors.

She later gained popularity again as Krösa Maja in the Swedish film and television series about Emil from Lönneberga.