She first told her story publicly in 2000 at an exhibition about the Edelweiss Pirates at EL-DE Haus. She was awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. In 2005, she co-founded the yearly festival Edelweißpiratenfestival (Edelweiss Pirates Festival). She published her memoirs, Edelweiß - Meine Jugend als Widerstandskämpferin (Edelweiss - My youth as a resistance fighter) in 2006.
