 The first two albums are filled with songs from Weimar cabaret (her father Rudolf Bernauer owned and ran three cabaret theatres in Berlin during the Weimar Republic years) and the third has more modern updates on the form with songs from Tom Waits and Roger McGough.She also sang a duet with Marc Almond on his "The Stars We Are" album, a song called "Kept Boy".In 1978, Bernelle appeared Off Broadway in New York City in the American premiere of Bertolt Brecht's "Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer", with Shelter West Theater Company at the Vam Dam Theatre, directed by W. Stuart McDowell, with an original musical score of ballads sung by Bernelle, composed by Tony Award-winning composer/arranger, Bruce Coughlin.