Stein's first professional role was at age ten in the 1999 television film
Das Mädchen aus der Fremde; she received a German Television Award for her performance as a troubled child refugee from
Kosovo. She had various small roles in television movies and shows as a young adult, before her breakout role in the 2010 film
Young Goethe in Love. Stein came to national prominence with the 2013 German miniseries
Generation War in which she played one of the five protagonists. Stein won an Austrian
Romy Award for her performance and received a special award for Ensemble Cast at the 2013
Bavarian TV Awards. She won the Best Actress award for her role in
One-way to Moscow at the 2020
Swiss Film Awards. In 2021, she won the Romy for the second time for her performance in the TV mini series
Unterleuten: The Torn Village. == Personal life ==