[2] Since then she has acted on film and television, for example in The Princess and the Warrior, as well as the German TV series Dr. Sommerfeld – Neues vom Bülowbogen.

[1] Following a recovery from cancer which caused a break in her acting career, in 1998, Brunckhorst began working as a scriptwriter, first for the television series Einsatz Hamburg Süd.

In the same year her first work as a director was published, La Mer, a playful-romantic short film.

[2] In addition, she still appears in movies, such as Totem [de], the only German contribution to the Venice Film Festival in 2011, she embodied a woman in desperation for the speechlessness of her family.

[1] Brunckhorst has one daughter: Emma (born 1991), from a relationship with German actor Dominic Raacke that lasted from 1988 to 1993.