She lived in the 1970s with the actress Marianne Hoppe together in a solid community life.
She began her career at the theater and in parallel she also entered the film business.
Her activity on stage increased again from 1933 and at the old age she also took part in front of the camera again, this time for TV productions.
With the end of World War I she had bear the lost of her brother, the actor Ernst Mewes, who served as a private and was killed in action in France. In the same year she started an intensive correspondence with the writer Rainer Maria Rilke.
She did not appear in any movies during World War I and therefore she played on stage more often again, among others in Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Hamburg.