Ackers was an actress in theater and cabarets in Göttingen, Riga, and Berlin.
[2][3] In 1921, she was in the cast of Florentine Nights: the Adventures of the Count of Costa (Florentinische Nächte: Die Abenteuer der Gräfin da Costa), written by Heinrich Heine.
[1] Ackers wrote Girlfriends: a Novel (about Women) (Freundinnen: Ein Roman (unter Frauen)), published in Hannover in 1923 and 1925 and in Berlin in 1927 and 1928.
[5][6][7][8][9] The novel explores lesbian desire in the setting of the artistic and theatrical society of Weimar Berlin.
[10][1] It also touches on issues of gender and sexuality: in response to being asked if one is "a girl or a boy," a character playing Puck responds: "I am what I am.