She owned and ran a major printing and publishing house, founded c. 1542 by her husband Johann vom Berg and his colleague Ulrich Neuber, from 1564 until her death in 1592.

They had a daughter named Katharina in 1539, and after her first husband's death in 1540, as Catherina Schmidin, she married Johann vom Berg in 1541.

After vom Berg's death in 1563 she ran the firm with Ulrich Neuber for several years.

In 1567 she married one Dietrich Gerlach von Aerdingen, and in 1568, Neuber dissolved the partnership and opened his own shop.

Her printing house is notable for producing hundreds of books of music and theology.