Upon returning to Berlin in 1911 she worked as a fashion and furniture designer and joined the Deutscher Werkbund - a German work federation - becoming its first female director in 1920.
The Federation of German Landscape Architects (Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten – BDLA), an IFLA member in good standing since 1954, introduced the "German Landscape Architecure Prize" in 1977.