After successfully completing her schooling she studied art history and theatrecraft ("Kunstgeschichte und Theaterwissenschaften"), also undertaking various internships with Berlin daily newspapers.

Her application to join Germany's ruling Nazi Party was accepted in September of that year (membership number 9,125,138).

It was in 1946 that she began to work as a freelance reporter for the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (broadcasting company), based in Hamburg which by this time was administered as part of the British occupation zone.

Another contribution during these early years was her involvement with a team of colleagues in creating the series "Sonntagsfamilientisch für Flüchtlinge aus der DDR" (loosely: "Sunday family lunchtime for refugees from the other Germany").

Carsten Diercks had been sent to set up a television studio for NDR, with the backing of Information Minister Indira Gandhi.

[4] In India Helga Diercks-Norden established herself as the officially accredited correspondent for Radio Bern, Switzerland's Die Weltwoche magazine and Zürich Television.

[2] She remained in India till 1973 when the family returned to Hamburg and Diercks-Norden resumed her career as a freelance journalist.