Maria Schrader

One of Germany’s most renowned actresses, Maria Schrader was born in Hanover. She started out as a student at the state theatre Hanover in 1983 and began her acting training at the Max- Reinhardt- Seminar in Vienna.

Ms. Schrader and Dani Levy co-wrote the script of his 1988 comedy Robbykallepaul, in which she made her first film appearance. She was honored with the Max-Ophüls-Prize for her performance in Mr. Levy’s 1992 I Was on Mars, the second of her eleven collaborations with him.

Her many film credits include Einer Meiner Ältesten Freunde (1993, dir. Rainer Kaufmann); Burning Life (1993, dir. Peter Welz); Flirt (1994, dir. Hal Hartley); Nobody Loves Me (1994, dir. Dors Dörrie); Silent Night (1996, dir. Dani Levy); The Unfish (1996, dir. Robert Dornhelm); Am I Beautiful? (1997, dir. Doris Dörrie); The Giraffe (1998, dir. Dani Levy/Maria Schrader); Aimée and Jaguar (1998, dir. Max Färberböck); Emil and the Detectives (2000, dir. Franziska Buch); Josephine (2001, dir. Rajko Grilic); Väter (2002, dir. Dani Levy); The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003, dir. Peter Greenaway); Rosenstrasse (2003, dir. Margarete von Trotta); Snowland (2005, dir. Hans W. Geissendörfer); and In Darkness (2011, dir. Agnieszka Holland).

After winning the Bavarian Film Award (1995/1999) and the Federal Film Award (1995/1999), Ms. Schrader received the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival’s Silver Bear for Best Actress (shared with Juliane Köhler) for her performance in Max Färberböck’s international hit Aimée and Jaguar.

Ms. Schrader made her directorial debut with Love Life, with a screenplay she co-wrote with Laila Stieler, an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Israeli writer Zeruya Shalev.

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