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.
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.
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.
She took part in the Cinekid Directors' Lab in 2020 and in several screenwriting workshops in Luxembourg, Munich and Kitzbühel.
She has directed episodes for several documentary TV series like EX AEQUO, aired on France TV and RTL Luxembourg, and BREAD REBELS, screened on Arte and Bayerischer Rundfunk. Her episode of the documentary series MOVE! is currently available online on Arte.tv.
Her first feature film 'Marianengraben', a tragicomedy based on the novel by Jasmin Schreiber, was released in Germany, Luxembourg and Austria in 2024 and in Italy in 2025.
DIRECTING
2025
2024
2024
2024
2022
2022
2021
2020
2018
2017
2013
2013
2011
2009
2008
2008
BILLE & ZOTTEL
DIE FLIEGENDEN FÜSSE DES IRISH DANCE (ep. of the doc. series 'Move!', 20')
KANNERSPILL (short, 12')
MARIANENGRABEN (feature film)
NICOLAS SUPIOT AND THE ALCHEMY OF BAKING (ep. 3 of the doc. series ‚Bread Rebels’, 30’)
THE QUICKIE (short, improvised fiction, 20’)
KAYANE (ep. 7 of the doc. series ‚Ex Aequo’, France TV/RTBF/RTL Lux. 10’)
MARMADUKE (music video for ‚The Lone Dining Society’, 5’)
TOUCH ME (orig. title ‚Was bleibt’, short fiction, 21')
IRIDESCENCE (dance video, 5:30’)
ELOGE (short fiction, 10’)
VERRECKT NO DIR (ep. 17 of the sitcom ‚Comeback’, 25')
LEGAL.ILLEGAL (short fiction, 25’)
PAS DE DEUX (short fiction, 7’)
MENA (short fiction, 11’)
LA NUIT PASSEE (short FICTION, 7’)
WRITING
2022
2019
2014
2011
MARIANENGRABEN (in progress, fiction, Samsa Film)
BILLE & ZOTTEL (in progress, children’s fiction, PTD Distributions, Filmfee)
KISS THEM BOYS GOODBYE (Paul Thiltges Distributions)
DIE SCHATZRITTER UND DAS GEHEIMNIS VON MELUSINA (Lucil Productions, Neos Film)