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Maria Schrader
Schrader in 2011
Born (1965-09-27) 27 September 1965 (age 58)
Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter, actress
Years active1992–present

Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 film Love Life and the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. She also starred in the German international hit TV series Deutschland 83 (2015), known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television.[1]

Early life and career

Schrader was born in Hanover and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria.

She is especially well known from the film Aimée & Jaguar, as well as the acclaimed Liebesleben ("Love life") that she wrote, produced, and in which she acted. She has also written other films: RobbyKallePaul; I Was on Mars; Stille Nacht and Meschugge. She co-directed I Was on Mars with Dani Levy, whom she dated until 1999.

Schrader was part of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000.

Schrader played the part of Martin Rauch's aunt in Deutschland 83 (2015),[2] an 8 episode TV series, which was the first German-language TV series to be broadcast on US television. It also became popular in the UK, airing in early 2016 on Channel 4.[3]

In 2020 Schrader directed the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series.[4] She directed the 2022 film She Said, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.[5]

Though Schrader's most popular roles as an actor are of the Jewish faith, and many of her films as a screenwriter and director include Jewish characters and revolve around Jewish struggles, Schrader herself is not Jewish.[6]

Awards

Nominations

Selected filmography

Actress
Year Title Role Director Notes
1992 I Was on Mars Silva Dani Levy with Dani Levy
1994 Nobody Loves Me [de] Fanny Fink Doris Dörrie with Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Elisabeth Trissenaar
Burning Life Anna Peter Welz [de] with Anna Thalbach, Max Tidof
1995 One of My Oldest Friends Marion Rainer Kaufmann with Richy Müller, Peter Lohmeyer
Silent Night Julia Dani Levy with Jürgen Vogel
1997 The Unfish Sophie Moor Robert Dornhelm with Eva Herzig [de], Andreas Lust [de], Georges Kern [de], August Schmölzer, Karl Merkatz, Bibiana Zeller, Rudolf Wessely, Erwin Leder
Child Murder [de] Katrin Menzel Bernd Böhlich TV film, with Jürgen Vogel, Christian Redl, Francis Fulton-Smith
1998 Meschugge Lena Katz Dani Levy with Dani Levy
Am I Beautiful? Elke Doris Dörrie with Senta Berger, Gottfried John, Iris Berben, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Franka Potente, Dietmar Schönherr, Heike Makatsch, Otto Sander, Joachim Król
1999 Aimée & Jaguar Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar) Max Färberböck with Juliane Köhler, Heike Makatsch, Johanna Wokalek
2001 Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man Johanna von Schulenberg Lars Kraume with Götz George, Alexander Scheer, Chulpan Khamatova, Vadim Glowna
Emil and the Detectives Pastorin Hummel Franziska Buch with Jürgen Vogel
Josephine Al Rajko Grlić with Miroslav Vladyka [cs], Giancarlo Esposito
2002 Operation Rubikon [de] Sophie Wolf Thomas Berger [de] TV film, with Hilmar Thate
I'm the Father [de] Melanie Krieger Dani Levy with Sebastian Blomberg, Christiane Paul
2003 Rosenstrasse Hannah Weinstein Margarethe von Trotta with Katja Riemann
2005 Schneeland Elisabeth Hans W. Geißendörfer with Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Mühe, Thomas Kretschmann, Joachim Król, Susanne Lothar
2008 Patchwork [de] Xenia Napolitano-Freitag Franziska Buch TV film, with Gabriela Maria Schmeide [de], Fritz Karl
2011 In Darkness Paulina Chiger Agnieszka Holland with Robert Więckiewicz
2013 Sisters [de] Saskia Kerkhoff Anne Wild [de] with Ursula Werner, Jesper Christensen
2014 Lose My Self [de] Lena Ferben Jan Schomburg [de] with Johannes Krisch, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sandra Hüller
2015 Deutschland 83 Lenora Rauch Edward Berger,

Samira Radsi

TV series, with Jonas Nay, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth, Sonja Gerhardt, Ludwig Trepte, Alexander Beyer, Lisa Tomaschewsky
2018 The City and The City Sen. Detective Quissima Dhatt Tom Shankland TV series, with David Morrissey, Mandeep Dhillon, Lara Pulver
2018 Deutschland 86 Lenora Rauch Florian Cossen,

Arne Feldhusen

TV series, with Jonas Nay, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth, Sonja Gerhardt, Ludwig Trepte, Alexander Beyer, Lisa Tomaschewsky
Director
Year Title Starring Notes
1998 Meschugge Dani Levy Co-director Dani Levy
2007 Love Life Netta Garti, Rade Šerbedžija, Tovah Feldshuh
2016 Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe Josef Hader, Barbara Sukowa
2020 Unorthodox Shira Haas, Amit Rahav, Jeff Wilbusch TV miniseries
2021 I'm Your Man Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw [de], Wolfgang Hübsch
2022 She Said Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Samantha Morton, Tom Pelphrey

References

  1. ^ "Cast & Characters". www.sundance.tv. Sundance TV. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Lenora Rauch – Characters". www.sundance.tv. Sundance TV. Archived from the original on 31 July 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Deutschland 83 becomes UK's highest rated foreign-language drama". www.fremantlemedia.com. Fremantle Media. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  4. ^ Ghert-Zand, Renee (21 September 2020). "Emmy-winning 'Unorthodox' director thrilled show didn't 'fly under the radar'". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  5. ^ Erbland, Kate (16 November 2022). "For 'She Said' Director Maria Schrader, Making a Movie Was Just Another Way to Get to the Truth". Indiewire. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  6. ^ Jeffries, Stuart (8 December 2017). "'His suicide shocked the world': Maria Schrader on her Oscar-nominated film about Stefan Zweig". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Berlinale: 1999 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Vor der Morgenröte". Deutscher Filmpreis. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

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