She was for 30 years a leading actress at the Schaubühne founded in Berlin by her husband Peter Stein, where she played both classical theatre such as Alkmene in Kleist's Amphitryon, and world premieres including Robert Wilson's Orlando for one actor, and roles that Botho Strauß created for her.

She played Lady Milford in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe directed by Stein,[4] alongside Bruno Ganz and Edith Clever.

[11] She played there Arkadina in Chekhov's Die Möwe, directed by Bondy, alongside Gert Voss in a production also shown at the Berliner Theatertreffen.

Directed by Edith Clever, she played Winnie in Beckett's Glückliche Tage, with irony and sarcasm.

[12] Jutta Lampe died in Berlin on 3 December 2020, ten days before her 83rd birthday,[7][8] after a long struggle with dementia.

[4][1] Source:[5] Lampe appeared in films by Margarethe von Trotta, beginning in 1979 in Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks (Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness), then in 1981 in Die bleierne Zeit alongside Barbara Sukowa, and decades later in Rosenstraße.