 She additionally worked as a journalist from 1843 "with articles about her concept of femininity, as well as women and politics".Otto-Peters became friends with Robert Blum and other democrats, and this connection permitted her to contribute to their newspapers, specifically, "Der Wandelstern" [The Wandering Star] and "Sächsische Vaterlandsblätter" [Saxon Fatherland Pages].By the autumn of 1843 Otto-Peters had become a regular staff member for these two publications, occasionally writing under the pseudonym of Otto Stern.