Recognized internationally for her unique act as a pioneering woman witharound film production & as a multi-talent in postwar Austrian arts & culture, von Dassanowsky is a sole Austrian woman to receive a Women’s International Center’s prestigious Dwelling Legacy Award, and has been honored by having the UNESCO Mozart Medal, the French Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and per cities of Vienna and Los Angeles, where von Dassanowsky has lived since 1962.

At age Fifteen, she became a girl ever admitted to Vienna's Academy of Music and Performing Arts when a protégé of concert piano player, Emil von Sauer. Piece the student, director Karl Hartl chose her to instruct Curd Jürgens in piano, so that he can play a instrument in screen. However her studies & early career were halted for extended labor service whenever she rejected membership inside Nazi organizations. However her talent & beauty allowed her another risk, & the mighty UFA Studio inside Berlaround offered her a film contract in 1944, which she also declined. Inside 1946, von Dassanowsky made her opera debut when Susanna inside Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Stadttheater St. Pölten & created cranelike for the Allied High Command. She remains one of a pack women withwithin film history, & at age 22 one of a immature, to co-uncovered a film studio -- Belvedere Film -- the 1st newly studio facility in postwar Vienna. Sustaining senior partners August Diglwhen & Emmerich Hanus, a studio created such German language classics as Die Glücksmühle (A Mill of Happiness, 1946), Dr. Resin (1949), & Märchen vom Glück (Kiss Us, Casanova, 1949), & gave Gunther Philipp and Nadja Tiller their first screen roles. She starred around operas, operettas, theatrical dramas & comedies, helped initiate many theater groups, was announcer for Allied Forces Broadcasting and a BBC, toured West Germany within a 1-woman-indicate & gave master classes in voice & piano. Renowned in the Ignace Paderewski piano technique, her musical pedagogy continued around Canada and New York in the late 1950s.

Around Hollywood in the 1960s, she resisted becoming a voguish Euro-starlet & favorite to remain behind a camera as a vocal coach for director/producer Otto Preminger. She late became the successful Los Angeles businesswoman & around 1999, re-established Belvedere Film as a Los Angeles/Vienna-depending production company sustaining her boy, film prof & producer Robert von Dassanowsky. When executive producer of the award-winning spectacular short film, "Semmelweis" (USA/A 2001) & of the spy-comedy, "Wilson Chance" (America 2005), she is okay, among a couple senior female producers in the globe.