A succession of further television hits followed through the 1980s, as she appeared alongside much loved stars of the German television firmament such as Helmut Fischer and Hans Clarin. By the end of the decade, with her husband, she had relocated again, this time across the border to the east back into Austria. It was not a total homecoming for Reinhard Schwabenitzky, however, since they made their new home not in Vienna but in Salzburg. It is probably at around this time that Eschke's career peaked, with leading roles in "In Zeiten wie diesen" (1990), an Austrian television series adapted by Schwabenitzky from an existing work by Wolfgang Bauer, and the feature film Ilona und Kurti, a black-humour comedy in which, under Schwabenitsky's direction, she starred opposite the Viennese actor-restauranteur, Hanno Pöschl. which won for Schwabenitsky, the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 1992.
