Maria Schrader
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Maria Schrader | |
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 Schrader in 2011 | |
| Born | 27 September 1965 Hannover,Lower Saxony,West Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Director, screenwriter, actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
Maria Schrader(born 27 September 1965) is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 filmLove Lifeand the 2020NetflixminiseriesUnorthodox,for which she won thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series.She also starred in the German international hit TV seriesDeutschland 83(2015), known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television.[1]
Early life and career[edit]
Schrader was born inHanoverand studied at theMax Reinhardt Seminarin Vienna, Austria.
She is especially well known from the filmAimée & Jaguar,as well as the acclaimedLiebesleben( "Love life" ) that she wrote, produced, and in which she acted. She has also written other films:RobbyKallePaul;I Was on Mars;Stille NachtandMeschugge.She co-directedI Was on MarswithDani Levy,whom she dated until 1999.
Schrader was part of the jury at theBerlin International Film Festivalin 2000.
Schrader played the part of Martin Rauch's aunt inDeutschland 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 onChannel 4.[3]
In 2020 Schrader directed theNetflixminiseriesUnorthodox,for which she won thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series.[4]She directed the 2022 filmShe Said,starringCarey MulliganandZoe 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[edit]
- 1992 Max Ophüls Festival, Best Young Actress forI Was on Mars
- 1995 Mystfest, Best Actress forBurning Life
- 1995Bavarian Film Awards,Best Actress forNobody Loves Me, Burning Life
- 1995German Film Awards,Best Leading Actress forNobody Loves Me, Burning Life, Einer meiner altesten Freunde
- 199949th Berlin International Film Festival,Silver Bear for Best Actress(shared withJuliane Köhler) forAimée & Jaguar[7]
- 1999German Film Awards,Best Leading Actress forAimée & Jaguar, The Giraffe
- 1999Bavarian Film Awards,Best Actress forAimée & Jaguar
- 2020Primetime Emmy Award,Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic SpecialforUnorthodox
Nominations[edit]
- 2016German Film Awards,Best Director forStefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe(Original title in German:Vor der Morgenröte)[8]
Selected filmography[edit]
| Year | Title | Starring | Notes |
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| 1998 | Meschugge | Dani Levy | Co-directorDani 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,Wolfgang Hübsch | |
| 2022 | She Said | Carey Mulligan,Zoe Kazan,Patricia Clarkson,Andre Braugher,Samantha Morton,Tom Pelphrey |
References[edit]
- ^"Cast & Characters".www.sundance.tv.Sundance TV. Archived fromthe originalon 2 July 2017.Retrieved17 February2016.
- ^"Lenora Rauch – Characters".www.sundance.tv.Sundance TV. Archived fromthe originalon 31 July 2016.Retrieved17 February2016.
- ^"Deutschland 83 becomes UK's highest rated foreign-language drama".www.fremantlemedia.com.Fremantle Media. Archived fromthe originalon 15 March 2016.Retrieved17 February2016.
- ^Ghert-Zand, Renee (21 September 2020)."Emmy-winning 'Unorthodox' director thrilled show didn't 'fly under the radar'".The Times of Israel.Retrieved21 September2020.
- ^Erbland, Kate (16 November 2022)."For 'She Said' Director Maria Schrader, Making a Movie Was Just Another Way to Get to the Truth".Indiewire.Retrieved7 February2023.
- ^Jeffries, Stuart (8 December 2017)."'His suicide shocked the world': Maria Schrader on her Oscar-nominated film about Stefan Zweig ".The Guardian.Retrieved10 June2021.
- ^"Berlinale: 1999 Prize Winners".berlinale.de.Retrieved29 January2012.
- ^"Vor der Morgenröte".Deutscher Filmpreis.Retrieved20 July2020.
External links[edit]
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- German women film directors
- German film actresses
- German television actresses
- Best Actress German Film Award winners
- Silver Bear for Best Actress winners
- 20th-century German actresses
- 21st-century German actresses
- Film people from Lower Saxony
- Actresses from Hanover
- Primetime Emmy Award winners