Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: 19 noa iho nga tau o Meyer i tana tīmatanga i runga i te atamira, e mahi ana i a "Lucy", te tamahine a te rangatira pirihimana, i roto i te mahinga a Leopold Jessner o The Threepenny Opera i Chemnitz. Whai muri i tera, he angitu tana mahi i te atamira i waenga i te 1930 me te 1935. Ko ana tama me Peter i whanau i te 1937 me te 1940: i okioki ia i tana mahi atamira tae noa ki te 1945. Kāore he kōrero mō Mr. Schroth, te pāpā o ngā tamariki. I muri i te hokinga mai o Lotte Meyer ki te atamira i te tau
I te tau 1945, ka uru ana tama tokorua ki te oranga whakaari a to raua whaea i a raua e tipu ana.