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'', starring

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and

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. 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

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, Best Actress for ''Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life'' *1995

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, Best Leading Actress for ''Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life, Einer meiner altesten Freunde'' *1999

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(shared with

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) for ''Aimée & Jaguar'' *1999

, Best Leading Actress for ''Aimée & Jaguar, The Giraffe'' *1999

, Best Actress for ''Aimée & Jaguar'' *2020 Primetime Emmy Award, Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for '' Unorthodox''

Nominations

*2016

, 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