Otto Brahm gave her the role of Helene Krause in the (matinee) world premiere of Before Sunrise on October 20, 1889, by the Freie Bühne in the Berlin rented Lessingtheater for this purpose.

This performance helped her to make a breakthrough, but she also already presented her as an interpreter of German naturalism, especially the pieces by Gerhart Hauptmann, fixed.

One of her acting peculiarities was natural, gaining sympathy "in tears can laugh", for which even the contemporary theatre criticism paid tribute.

At the world premiere of Die Weber in 1893, she impressed Luise Hilse and even more so in the same year as Ms Wolff in Der Biberpelz.

Except in Hauptmann's estate was seen Else Lehmann, for example, Karl Schönherrs people in need (1917), as "Ella Rentheim" in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (1917) and "Mrs Alving" in its ghosts as well as in Kabale und Liebe (1924 in Theater in der Josefstadt).