Born in Luxembourg to a German mother and a French-Scottish father, Eileen started writing and directing her first plays and musicals as a teenager. After her European baccalaureate she did several traineeships on film productions in Luxembourg and started working as a script supervisor in 2006.

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After her studies of Performing Arts at the University of Winchester and theatre, music and history of art at Munich University, she started studying film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich in 2007. 2012/13 she did an additional Master’s degree in directing at the Toulouse film school.

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Whilst studying she made several short films which were selected for festivals in a variety of countries. Her final year film TOUCH ME was nominated for the Student Academy Awards and First Steps Awards and was screened at Camerimage Int. Film Festival, Max Ophüls Preis and in Palm Springs.

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KAYANE, an episode of the documentary series EX AEQUO, aired on France TV and RTL Luxembourg in 2021. Her episode of the documentary series BREAD REBELS will be screened on ARTE in June 2021. 

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Her first feature film 'Marianengraben', a tragicomedy based on the novel by Jasmin Schreiber, will be released in Germany, Luxembourg and Austria in autumn of 2024.