Education
She studied piano at the Wiesbaden Conservatory from 1896 under Max Reger.
She studied piano at the Wiesbaden Conservatory from 1896 under Max Reger.
The father departed in 1880 on a lecture tour in the United States. from which he did not return, he died on 28 February 1888 in Reading. In Wiesbaden, she discovered her passion for the theater, which she shared with her lover, the Austrian officer Franz Ferdinand Körner. With the assistance of her father-in-law August Körner, an influential Viennese banker, she was given the opportunity to audition for the director general of the Vienna Court Opera.
Körner debuted in 1898 at Vienna"s Burgtheater and eventually obtained an engagement at the Emperor"s Jubilee Theatre.
In 1915, Max Reinhardt brought her to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In Stuttgart and Hamburg, she directed and stood on the stage, from 1919 to 1925 she was director in Dresden and Munich Schauspielhaus.
Körner continued to play with Gustaf Gründgens at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin. Körner last lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.
She was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery.