Eva Ingeborg Scholz made her debut in the title role of the 1948 film 123 Corona and appeared regularly in films over the following decade including a performance as a young lodger in Peter Lorres only directorial effort The Lost One 1951 and a supporting role in The Devils General 1955 with Curd Jürgens Among her later films are the Disney production Emil and the Detectives 1964 in which she played the mother of the title character and Rainer Werner Fassbinders The American Soldier 1970 From the early 1960s she appeared increasingly in television where she remained active until the age of 90 years in 2018 She appeared in popular television productions like Tatort Derrick The Old Fox and Stuttgart Homicide In 2018 she won the Deutscher Schauspielpreis German Actors Award for her supporting role in the Tatort episode Die Liebe ein seltsames Spiel 2017