[1] She is a member of the House of Henckel von Donnersmarck, an Austro-German noble family that once owned large estates in Silesia.

Henckel-Donnersmarck is related to German-American film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

[4] Henckel-Donnersmarck attended Camberwell College of Arts in London and the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg.

[2] From 2007 to 2019, Henckel-Donnersmarck served as a member of the Berlin International Film Festival's Berlinale Shorts selection committee.

In June 2019, she succeeded Maike Mia Höhne as the curator of the Berlinale Shorts competition.