After the death of her parents, she and her two brothers went to the worker and poor house, which can be found in the north of Witzwort and has since been converted into an apartment building.

She attended a teacher's college in Schleswig and, as she wrote, "wärr so gau dat man güng Lehrerin".

Some works show Andresen's involvement in the German-Danish border conflict - from 1921 she lived in North Schleswig, which had belonged to Germany until 1920.

She was a member of the Eutiner Dichterkreis, founded in 1936, one of the most important groups of authors in National Socialist Germany.

[3] In 1936 the family moved to Bremen, where Ingeborg Andresen spent the last 20 years of her life, from 1941 in the house of the Nordic Society.