[1] After moving to Germany she studied acting under Lucie Höflich and Ilka Grüning.
Her first big movie success came in the operetta The Csardas Princess in 1934, alongside Hans Söhnker.
During the Third Reich she was cast in several Nazi propaganda films, such as Legion Condor (1939) with Paul Hartmann, and Stukas (1941) as a French girl alongside Carl Raddatz.
Thanks to personal contacts in politics, the aristocracy and the world of film and theatre, the couple was able to receive many prominent guests in their private sanatorium in Bad Kissingen in the following decades - such as, for example, the Thai royal couple Bhumibol Adulyadej and Sirikit during the visit of the German President Heinrich Lübke and his wife Wilhelmine in 1960; Lübke was taking the cure at Dehnhardt's sanatorium at the time.
"[2] Von Ditmar lived in Bad Kissingen until her death and was buried in the park cemetery there.