[2] She made her debut in Franz Lehár's operetta Der Tsarewitsch at the Johann Strauss Theatre in Vienna in May 1928.
[6] She also played minor roles in films produced in Vienna and Budapest: Peter (1934), Maskerade (1934), Nocturno (1934) and Leap into Bliss (1935).
By 1937 she had achieved minor celebrity as a film star and singer, had taken the stage name Della Lind, and was better known to an American audience as 'MGM's exotic Viennese singing actress'.
[8] Lizzi left Berlin to return to Vienna in 1933, but Austria experienced a similar political radicalization as Germany.
Lizzi's last film role was in Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben, which was shot in 1935 and released in May 1936.
[10] Together with Lizzi and her mother Lilly, Hertha left Austria and traveled to Rotterdam, from where they took the Dutch SS Statendam to New York in August 1937.
It is likely that Leddy's busy work life, as well as Hertha missing her sisters and mother who had settled in Los Angeles, led to their separation and divorce in 1945.
Steininger was the godson of Franz Lehár and worked in Hollywood as a film music composer and orchestra leader and conductor.