Daniella was born in 1995 in Whitechapel, a delightful district of London once frequented by the serial killer, Jack the Ripper. She spent her childhood between the East End, Denmark, Hampshire, and Cheshire, before heading to Oxford for a degree in German, and becoming the first in her family to go to university.

She graduated with the highest grades in her year, the best results in the languages faculty, and an impressive collection of medical diagnoses. It was during her degree that her health took a dramatic and plot-twisty turn, but this was also when she came across a filmmaker named Fassbinder, who’s stuck by her bedside ever since.

In Fassbinder’s hometown of Munich, Daniella worked as a journalist and copy editor for a year, before realising she wanted to be neither. At the risk of losing her sanity, she decided to return to Oxford where she graduated with distinction in a master’s that nobody can remember the name of (‘Comparative Literature and Critical Translation’).

Here, among other things, she wrote papers about the Nazi film industry’s copy-catting of Hollywood movies, and her final dissertation was on the annoyingly brilliant American adaptation of her favourite Danish TV series, The Killing. She then defected to Cambridge to write a PhD about the pesky ghost that won’t leave her alone: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She’s now writing a freewheeling book about his life and films for Faber, and is making an autofictional documentary about him.

She speaks English, Danish, and German fluently; French, Norwegian, and Swedish… not so fluently.