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

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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 ''

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'' (2015), known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television.

Early life and career

Schrader was born in

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and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in

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, Austria. She is especially well known from the film ''

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'', 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

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, whom she dated until 1999. Schrader was part of the jury at the

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in 2000. Schrader played the part of Martin Rauch's aunt in ''

'' (2015), 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

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. In 2020 Schrader directed the

miniseries '' Unorthodox'', for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. She directed the 2022 film ''She Said (film), She Said'', starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. 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.

Awards

*1992 Max Ophüls Festival, Best Young Actress for ''I Was on Mars'' *1995 Mystfest, Best Actress for ''Burning Life'' *1995 Bayerischer Filmpreis, Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for ''Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life'' *1995 Deutscher Filmpreis, German Film Awards, Best Leading Actress for ''Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life, Einer meiner altesten Freunde'' *1999 49th Berlin International Film Festival, Silver Bear for Best Actress (shared with Juliane Köhler) for ''Aimée & Jaguar'' *1999 Deutscher Filmpreis, German Film Awards, Best Leading Actress for ''Aimée & Jaguar, The Giraffe'' *1999 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for ''Aimée & Jaguar'' *2020 Primetime Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special, Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for '' Unorthodox''

Nominations

*2016 Deutscher Filmpreis, German Film Awards, Best Director for ''Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe'' (Original title in German: ''Vor der Morgenröte'')

Selected filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schrader, Maria 1965 births Living people 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 Actors from Hanover