[4] Between 1946 and 1951 she studied at the Academy for Visual and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weissensee where she was taught by Werner Klemke, Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer and Eva Schwimmer.
[5] Her first child, the photographer Michael Weidt, was born in February 1946, and initially brought up by his maternal grandmother while his mother concentrated on her art studies.
[7] By this time, having received her degree in 1951, she was launching her career as a freelance artist, concentrating on producing illustrations for children's books.
[1] This led to further studies from ballet and dance theatre and a long association with the Berlin "Comic Opera" ("Komische Oper") under its long-standing chief choreographer Tom Schilling who became a particular family friend of the Weidts.
The final part of Ursula Wendorff's lengthy degree course, which was published as a children’s book in 1952 under the title "Brotfibel" (loosely, "Bread starter") which she authored.