She took Joseph Offenbach's acting courses at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, making her first appearance on stage at Theater Hof.
Then she played at the regional stage of Hannover and from 1966 to 1967 at Thalia Theater, from 1967 to 1968 at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel [de] in Munich, from 1968 to 1970 at the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin.
She started in Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox, then continued with Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger and SOKO 5113 and eventually appeared in Derrick and in Solange es die Liebe gibt [de].
Moreover, she played supporting roles in films such as Edgar Reitz's Cardillac (1969), as well as main roles in Ula Stöckl's film Neun Leben hat die Katze (1968) and in Niklaus Schilling's The Woman Without a Body and the Projectionist [lb].
She also dubbed Majel Barrett's voice in the science-fiction series Star Trek (Raumschiff Enterprise in German).