After the war she returned to Germany where she worked with numerous successful theaters of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortner's Berliner Bühnen.
In the talkies of the 30's she took part in well-known productions like "Der Mörder Dimitri Karramasoff" (1931), "M" (1931) by Fritz Lang, "Verräter" (1936) and "Glückskinder" (1936).
Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldomly played a leading role there.
The actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel began her film career during the silent movie era.
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the second wife of film director Berthold Viertel.
She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting.
After the war she returned to Germany and continued her career there but kept busy between Europe and the USA where she acted in many productions.
Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies as The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler" (1943) and "The House on 92nd Street" (1947).