Katharina Eyssen was born in Bavaria, raised in Munich to a movie director and a novelist. She graduated from HFF - the Munich School for Television and Film in 2010 and soon after finished her first feature film (»The Girl with Nine Wigs«, 2012) as a screenwriter. She has since written a novel and several scripts for German cinema and TV. »Holiday Secrets« (2019), a Christmas dramedy mini-series, was her first show for Netflix and her first experience as a showrunner. Katharina is the head-writer and creator of the Netflix show »The Empress«, first released in 2022 which has become a global success and won the International Emmy for best Drama series in 2023.
Katharina lives with her family in Berlin.