After training as a telecommunications technician and becoming a civil servant at Deutsche Telekom, Eckermann studied theater, film and television studies, English and education in Cologne (graduated in 2002: Magister Artium).
Since 2003 she has worked - among others with Stefan Müller in the writing team antagonisten.de - as a show & series writer and for many years as a permanent development editor.
Eckermann has received various grants for film and series material, most recently the script grant from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW for her teen musical "Itsy Bitsy Joy" (2022).
She also writes radio plays and novels, most recently "Elektro Krause" (2021), for which she received the "Crystal Stephan" in 2021. She was nominated for the "Golden Stephan", the "German Fantasy Prize of the City of Wetzlar 2022" and the "Seraph 2022".