Eva Ingeborg Scholz made her debut in the title role of the 1948 film 1-2-3 Corona and appeared regularly in films over the following decade, including a performance as a young lodger in Peter Lorre's only directorial effort The Lost One (1951) and a supporting role in The Devil's 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 Fassbinder's The American Soldier (1970).