[2][3] After a first engament at the Stadttheater Oberhausen, she was a member of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden from 1961 to 1964, where she appeared as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte and performed trouser roles in operas by Richard Strauss, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and the composer in Ariadne auf Naxos.
[5] Leading parts included characters by Verdi (Azucena in Der Troubadour, Eboli in Don Carlos) and Wagner (Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Fricka in Die Walküre), and Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.
In operas by Alban Berg, she performed Countess Geschwitz in Lulu and the soprano part of Marie in Wozzeck.
In 1972, she recorded the alto part in J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion with Philipp Röhl conducting his choir Philharmonischer Chor Köln [de].
[6] The same year, she recorded the part of Gertrude in Heinrich Marschner's opera Hans Heiling, conducted by Gerd Albrecht, with choir and orchestra of RAI Turin, with Bernd Weikl in the title role, Gerti Zeumer as Anna and Ursula Schröder-Feinen as the Königin der Erdgeister.