Until 1945, she frequently visited the family of her foster sister, who had meanwhile married Friedrich von Arnim, at Schloss Bornsdorf [de].
[2][3][4][5] She wrote the verses of the unprinted picture book Bunte Waldgeschichten and Bärchens Abenteuer created around 1940 by the Magdeburg painter and graphic artist, Wilhelm Höpfner [de].
[6] After the end of the war, Forstreuter had to give up her job as editor and work as a packer at the newspaper.
At the beginning of the 1950s, she left the GDR and moved to Hamburg, where the daughters of her now deceased foster sister lived and supported her until the establishment.
In 1936, Forstreuter received the poetry prize of the journal "Die Dame" of the "Deutscher Verlag", endowed with 1000 RM, for her poem "Liebende in der Landschaft".