In 1946, in Germany, she was a playwright, with one of her early productions,
Farewell Isabell, staged in
Straubing's Municipal Theater and in Munich. During the post-World War II period, Drath worked as a German interpreter in Munich, in the office of her soon-to-be husband, who was the deputy military governor of Bavaria. After moving to
Lincoln, Nebraska, with her first husband, she attended the
University of Nebraska, where she studied for an advanced degree in literature and philosophy. During this time, Drath and her first husband moved to
Washington, DC, where Col. Drath was a legislative liaison with the Selective Service. They bought a house at 3206 Q Street, Northwest, in the
Georgetown district in northwest Washington, D.C. Sonia Adler hired Drath to write for the
Washington Dossier, where she wrote about "political gossip, lifestyle advice, and culture, explored a diverse cross-section of the city's fine-art world. As a member of the executive committee of the
National Committee on American Foreign Policy, she was described as a "notable figure in German-American relations for over thirty years." Her 1988 article for the National Committee,
The Reemergence of the German Question, proposed negotiations on German unification between the two German states and the four Allied Powers. Drath was a foreign policy adviser during the
1988 Bush campaign , where she helped "lay the groundwork which led to the "2+4" process towards German unification in 1990". In 1989, Drath met President
George H. W. Bush. During her life, she authored eight textbooks read in over 150 colleges and universities. She taught at American University and lectured at the University of Southern California. Her articles and commentaries were published in
American Foreign Policy Interests,
The Washington Times,
Commentary,
Businessweek,
The Chicago Tribune,
Strategic Review,
The National Observer,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Das Parlament, and
Der Spiegel.
Social activities She was a member of the White House Commission on Remembrance, co-chair of the Berlin Air Lift Diamond Jubilee Committee, coordinator of the International Consultative Mechanism on Remembrance, and National Coordinator of National Observance to Mark Iraq Liberation Day.
Diplomatic activities During Drath's life, she was: • Advisor and member of the Delegation of the Republic of Cyprus to the First Committee, 51st United Nations General Assembly, • Advisor, Member of the Delegation of the Republic of Cyprus to the 2001 UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, in All Its Aspects, • Advisor, Member of the Delegation of the Republic of Cyprus to the 2006 Conference to Review Implementation of the 2001 Programme of Action to Eradicate the Illicit Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons, in All Its Aspects, • Observer, Bamako Convocation of the Eminent Persons Group in
Bamako, Mali, • Special Advisor, Delegation of the United States to the 17th Organization of America States General Assembly, • Observer, 4th United Nations Meeting of the International Commission on Verification and Security, and • Observer, Esquipulas II. ==Murder==