Tales from the Vienna Woods
In 1926, Neher went to Berlin to work with Bertolt Brecht. He wrote the role of Polly Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera" for her, but late in rehearsals her husband died at Davos on 14 August 1928. She was therefore unable to appear at the premiere, but acted the role of Polly in the later performances. Brecht wrote several roles for her, such as Lilian Holiday in "Happy End" and the title role in his "Saint Joan of the Stockyards". She enjoyed success as Marianne in Ödön von Horváth's "Tales from the Vienna Woods", and embodied and immortalized Polly in G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of "The Threepenny Opera".