An ardent supporter of the KPD, the German communist party, Neher left Germany shortly after the Nazi took over and emigrated to Prague, then to Moscow where she appeared on the stage as a cabaret artiste. In the spring of 1936, Anatol Becker, Neher's husband -also an ardent communist, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of "Terrorist ...
She got her first stage engagements at the theater Baden-Baden in 1920 and in the next years followed other theater engagements in cities like Nuremberg and Munich.
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She emigrated to Prague, where she worked at the New German Theater, but went on to the Soviet Union in 1934, where she met Gustav von Wangenheim and worked with him at his German language cabaret Kolonne Links. In 1936, throughout the Great Purge, Wangenheim denounced Neher and her husband, Anatol Becker, as Trotskyites, she was arrested on July 25, 1936. Becker was executed in 1937; Neher was sentenced to ten years in prison and sent to a gulag near Orenburg.
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The film business remained an irrelevant fact in the career of Carola Neher. She went to Berlin in 1926 where she was able to go on from her former successes and she appeared among others in Bert Brecht's "Die Dreigroschenoper" (1929) of Bert Brecht. Brecht wrote other roles for her in his plays "Happy End" and "Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe". Other popular stage plays followed with "Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald" and "Ich tanze um die Welt mit dir".
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The actress Carola Neher began her cinematical career as a bank clerk before she fulfilled her dream to become an actress.
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After the premature dead of her husband Alfred Henschke she got married with Anatol Becker. They shared the same political view and supported the communism.
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She managed her breakthrough in Breslau were she appeared at the Lobe-Theater for several years. There she also met the writer Alfred "Klabund" Henschke and they got married in 1925.
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Her fate caused protests among other emigrants outside the Soviet Union, especially as Bertolt Brecht did not aid Neher.
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She and her second husband went to the Soviet Union where she again was able to continue her artistic career.
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Neher practiced boxing with Turkish trainer and prizefighter Sabri Mahir at his studio, which opened to women (including Vicki Baum and Marlene Dietrich) in the 1920s. Posing for a photograph opposite Mahir and equipped with boxing gloves and a maillot, she asserted herself as a "New Woman", challenging traditional gender categories.
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The Carola-Neher-Street in Berlin Hellersdorf is named after Neher.
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Carola Neher was also a joint signatory of an appeal against Adolf Hitler in 1933.
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