Heinrich was born in Darmstadt and moved to Larroque, Entre Ríos with her family in 1926, fleeing from the First World War.
V svoji karieri je fotografirala mnoge zvezde argentinskega filma, kot so bile Tita Merello, Carmen Miranda, Zully Moreno in Mirtha Legrand, pa tudi različne kulturnike, kot so Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda in Eva Perón.