Daughter of Rainer Makatsch, former goalkeeper of Germany's national
ice hockey team.
In 2005 she began a relationship with Max Martin Schröder. On January 23, 2007 they welcomed their first daughter Mieke Ellen Schröder and their second daughter was born in October 2009. They broke up by 2014. In 2015 she welcomed her third daughter.
One of the first VJs on German music channel Viva.
2001: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film
Promotion.
Originally, had to back out of the lead role in Hilde (2009) due to her pregnancy, but, when pre-production was delayed, she was eventually able to take the part.
After her TV breakthrough as VJ and host on Viva, the German MTV clone,
the media often considered her the prototype of a "girly girl" in the
1990s.