Meyer was just 19 when she made her stage debut, playing "Lucy", the daughter of the police chief, in Leopold Jessner's production of The Threepenny Opera at Chemnitz. After that she had a successful stage career at the between 1930 and 1935. Her sons and Peter were born in 1937 and 1940: she took a break from her stage work till 1945. Sources are silent about Mr. Schroth, the boys' father. After Lotte Meyer returned to the stage in 1945, her two sons shared their mother's itinerant theatrical lifestyle as they grew up.