[1] After the war, with a large part of what had been central Germany now administered as the Soviet occupation zone, she undertook an unpaid internship with the weekly newspaper "Sonntag", later working, till 1949, as a contributing editor for it.
During this period, in July 1953, she was on the receiving end of an official reprimand from the National Party Control Commission ("Zentrale Parteikontrollkommission") because of an interview with Max Fechner which was published on 30 June 1953.
In 1968 she switched to the country's best known women's magazine, "Für Dich", where she worked as editor in chief[3] in succession to Yvonne Freyer [de], remaining in post until her retirement, probably in 1981.
[1] After 1981 Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich continued to work for the party central committee's Marxism-Leninism institute, also remaining active as a freelance journalist and publishing several books.
In 1947 she became a member of the Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands / SED) which had been created under controversial circumstances in April of the previous year.