Career
Brunckhorst"s career started at age 14 with her role as Christiane F. in the drama Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo and a year later appeared in Rainer Werner Fassbinder"s Querelle (1982). After the unexpected success of Christiane F. - Wir Kinder com Bahnhof Zoo, she retreated from public life and went to school in England. After a short time in Paris she returned to Germany in 1987 to study at the drama school in Bochum.
Since then she has acted on film and television, for example in The Princess and the Warrior, as well as the German television series Doctor Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen.
Brunckhorst has one daughter: Emma (born 1991), from a relationship with German actor Dominic Raacke that lasted from 1988 to 1993. She currently lives in Munich, Germany.