After her vocal training Görner was engaged as a member of the Staatsoper Hamburg at age 22.

She appeared there in Harold Rome's Fanny, alongside Trude Hesterberg, the first musical produced at Gärtnerplatz.

[2] In the 1956 world premiere of Paul Burkhard's spieloper Spiegel, das Kätzchen, she performed as Miesmies alongside Ferry Gruber, among others.

[4] She was also successful as a performer of songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as well as of chansons of the 1920s.

[4] She was the great-granddaughter of Karl August Görner, an actor and theater manager, and the opera singer Friederike Tomasini from Neustrelitz.