Known for her red hair and exuberant vivacity, her most famous role was that of Salome, which she performed under the composer, Richard Strauss, himself in 1944 on his 80th birthday.
There are a number of film versions of the operetta, including : Gräfin Mariza (1932), directed by Richard Oswald with Dorothea Wieck and Hubert Marischka; Gräfin Mariza (1958), directed by Rudolf Schündler with Christine Görner and Rudolf Schock; Gräfin Mariza (1974), directed by Eugen York with Ljuba Welitsch and René Kollo.