Before his emigration, Hermann Schieberth pursued a successful carrier as a photographer. In his second studio, in Kaltenleutgeben, he employed Trude Fleischmann, who would emigrate via London to New York in 1938. Schieberth taught nude photography courses at his atelier and and published his photographs with Kilophot (1905–1930), which was owned by Felix Leutner, and conributed to the journal Die Schönheit – mit Bildern geschmückte Zeitschrift für Kunst und Leben, created and published by Karl Vanselow from 1902–1914 and then by Richard A. Giersecke, who was associated with right wing thinking and concepts of racial hygiene. The journal was part of the 'Freikörperkulturbewegung' (nudism movement) and mostly featured naked bodies and topics around body hygiene and education, reform clothing, dance, art and design, as well as travel reportages related to nude photography. Other contributors were Isadora Ducan, Fidus (Hugo Höppner) and Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. Schieberth's photographs were also published in Leopold Josef Detonis Bildnisse und Akte in 1924. Detoni owned a photography publishing house in Vienna and was a member of the Photographische Gesellschaft Wien (Photographic Society in Vienna), a professional association. He was also the founder and editor of Allgemeine Photographische Zeitung (General Photographic Newspaper). An enthusiastic supporter of Hitler’s National Socialism, he was a member of the Arisierungskomission (Aryanisation Commission).
Schieberth is also listed as photographer for the Natur und Kultur photobook, Das Weib, which “contains 120 nudes of women from all over the world, but mostly from Europe”, and photographs by Emil Otto Hoppe, Trude Fleischmann and Karl Schenker among others. It was published by the Buchverlag der Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung klassischer Kunst in Berlin in 1925.
Schieberth photographed numerous intellectuals and artists, such as artist Oskar Kokoschka and the photographer Karl Schenker. In Shanghai, he opened a studio and showroom named Salon d’Art, at 267 Kiangse Road in the International Settlement, not far away from the Hamilton House. Located at the junction of Kiangse Road and Foochow Road (now Jiangxi Lu and Fuzhou Lu) opposite its sister building, the Metropole Hotel, Hamilton House was one of the luxurious offices and apartment buildings designed by the architect Georg Wilson, employed at Turner and Palmer, and commissioned by Victor Sassoon. It housed the office of the German language exile press Shanghai Jewish Chronicle, published by Ossi Lewin among others. From 1939 to 1945 (1945 –1948, Shanghai Echo), members of the editorial board were Willy Tonn or Alfred Dreifuß.
The artist Hans Jacoby wrote about his visits to Schieberth’s salon and home and remembered the latter as a “cultivated home” with “precious paintings”. Not much is known about Schieberth's photographic practice in Shanghai, but in 1943 he placed this announcement in the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle: “Prof. Schieberth still at 267 Kiangse Road buys high quality artworks of all kinds”. It would appear that he was able to remain or stay for some time at the same address despite its being outside the proclaimed designated area in 1943 by the occupying Japanese military authorities.