For most of her movies she also wrote the screenplay and after her career as a movie director she continued her activity as a screenwriter.
Besides her activity for the film she also used her writing abilities for the radio and publications and she wrote books like "Die beiden Schwestern".
She already joined the film business in 1913 when she wrote the screenplay for the filming of her book of the same name "Die Berliner Range" (1913).
After a study for literature, art and cultural studies she began a career as a stage actress.
She wrote the scripts for the silent movie "Der Fahnenträger von Sedan" (1927) as well as for the sound movies "Panik beim Maskenball" (1937), "Die beiden Schwestern" (1943) and "Die schwarze Robe" (1944).