[3][4] Schoop studied sculpture, architecture, painting and fashion design at the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien and the Reimann School in Berlin.

[7] When Werner Finck and Hans Deppe founded the cabaret Die Katakombe in Berlin on 16 October 1929, the ensemble also included the actor Theo Lingen, the dancers Trudi and Hedi Schoop, and the artist Erich Ohser.

[3] When the cabaret dissolved in 1930,[9] Schoop turned to Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel-Theater [de], which opened on 7 January 1931.

[3] A guest of their first program was Marlene Dietrich, who had become famous singing Hollaender's songs, including "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt".

[10] was reviewed by Alfred Polgar in Die Weltbühne, who wrote about her ability to present with a "trinity" of temperament, drollery and grace ("Dreieinigkeit von Temperament, Drolligkeit und Grazie"), lively physical humour ("lebhaftem körperlichem Witz") and biting parody ("saftig im Parodistischen").

The couple emigrated via Paris to the United States,[3] where Hollaender had a contract for three months with 20th Century Fox.

[3] When Hollaender received a contract with RKO to produce a Western and compose the film score for it, he closed the cabaret.

[16] She employed other foreigners, including the journalist Ferdinand Kahn [de], the actor Ernő Verebes, the artist Sylvester Schäffer [de], the dancer Gitta Wallerstein, the actress Illa Rhoden and the cabaret artist Trude Berliner.