Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff worked at the Austrian embassy in Kuwait  during the Iraqi invasion in 1990. She subsequently worked as assistant  to the Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, at the Austrian Embassy Kuwait, Visa Section (1997-2000)  and the Austrian Embassy Tripoli, Libya (2000-2001). Since 2001, she has  been an ESL and TOEFL teacher at an English language institute in Vienna. In 2010 Sabaditsch-Wolff was a speaker at a conference sponsored by the Freedom Defense Initiative at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC,  entitled: "Jihad: The Political Third Rail — What They Are Not Telling  You."

In 2017 Sabaditsch-Wolff was charged with denigrating religious teachings, "hate speech" about the prophet Muhammad. The Austrian courts convicted her and sentenced her to jail and a fine, after determining that she "was making value judgments partly based on  untrue facts and without regard to the historical context.”