[2] She attended the Dresden Conservatory for a short while, but then moved to Zwickau where she began to act as a Dilettantin at the Goethe-Verein.

[2] Marberg caused a sensation in the title role of Oscar Wilde's Salome in 1903, which remained in the repertoire for five years.

[3][4] She was depicted in the role by Leopold Schmutzler,[5] performing the dance of seven veils; she was possibly also the model for a painting of Salome by Franz von Stuck.

[1] On 14 October 1911, she played the female lead in the world premiere of Schnitzler's Das weite Land.

When Shaw's Pygmalion received its world premiere in German on 16 October 1913, she played a lead role alongside Max Paulsen [de].