Holl was briefly a silent film star during the early Weimar Republic, appearing in productions such as F. W. Murnau's Desire (1921).

[8] Holl was a performer at Schall und Rauch, a cabaret in Berlin that had been founded by Max Reinhardt in 1901.

She inspired multiple songs by Walter Mehring and Kurt Tucholsky,[3] including "The Blonde Lady Sings" and "Petronella", a parody of the Berlin trend for nudity on stage, and a dig at strip clubs.

"[10] and, "Unlike any other German artist, this rare and glorious woman is qualified and destined to be the great political singer.

I won't even mention her tremendous art of parody and her ability to flit over the most daring things with a gracious leap – we are only interested in the artist who has more to say to a hall full of politically thinking people than ten journalists could.

[13] Holl made her film debut in the 1913 short The Sky Monster, also called America to Europe in an Airship or Kidnapped in Midair.

[19] The two divorced in 1922, and Holl later told Françoise Rosay, "I excused a lot of his failings and whims because I loved him.

[22] Holl had a daughter of her own called "Boubie"; the father was allegedly a close relative of Wilhelm II.