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]
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 |
Early life and career
editSchrader 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
edit- 1992 Max Ophüls Festival, Best Young Actress for I Was on Mars
- 1995 Mystfest, Best Actress for Burning Life
- 1995 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life
- 1995 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 [7]
- 1999 German Film Awards, Best Leading Actress for Aimée & Jaguar, The Giraffe
- 1999 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Aimée & Jaguar
- 2020 Primetime Emmy Award, Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for Unorthodox
Nominations
edit- 2016 German Film Awards, Best Director for Stefan 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-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, 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 from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ "Lenora Rauch – Characters". www.sundance.tv. Sundance TV. Archived from the original on 31 July 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1999 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ "Vor der Morgenröte". Deutscher Filmpreis. Retrieved 20 July 2020.