First working as a stage actress, she focused on the bandoneon form age 32, playing in several orchestras and ensembles internationally.
She authored radio features, a novel for young people and, with Arne Birkenstock, a collection about history and stories of the tango.
[1] She trained to be an actor at the Neue Münchner Schauspielschule [de], and was engaged at the Residenztheater in Munich,[2] the Theater Basel and the Schauspielhaus Bochum, playing roles such as Luise in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and Lena in Büchner's Leonce und Lena).
[2] In 1997, she performed with voice and instrument in the world premiere of Eckard Koltermann [de]'s chamber opera Der ungeheure Raum after texts by E. E. Cummings at the Prinzregenttheater in Bochum.
[4] Form 2001, she has also composed and played music for literary readings, including Peter Lieck [de] and Bernt Hahn (Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu), Monica Bleibtreu (Asche, Asche, poems by Alejandra Pizarnik) and Rufus Beck (M. A. Numminen's Tango, meine Leidenschaft).