A German writer, who spent her childhood in Enger, Germany. She studied theater, television, and languages in Cologne, then obtained a master's degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and worked as an assistant director on the film Cold Spring (2004). She then wrote her most famous works such as the films Good Girl, Bad Girl (2006), Fatal Rescue (2009), Ohne Dich (2014), and the series Jenny: Echt gerecht (2018).