After working for Radio Munich, she became the first announcer of the
local Bavarian television in 1954.
Member of the VIP team on the long-running hit quiz show Was bin ich? (1955) from
11 February 1961 to 10 January 1989.
She was a niece of politician and writer Erwein Freiherr von Aretin and cousin of politician Anton Freiherr von Aretin and historian Karl Otmar Freiherr of Aretin.