Lead icon of the influential New German Cinema of the 70's & 80's, Schygulla's natural blonde beauty and amazing versatility keep her among the world's top actresses. She won best actress at Cannes in 1983 for _Storia di Piera . Her German father was an infantryman in Italy, who was in a POW camp until she was 5. After the war, the German population was expelled from the Kattowice area.
Festival tribute at the Crteil International Womens Film Festival, France.
As she has lived in Paris since 1981, she is fluent in French.
In the 1990s, she started singing and released her album "Hanna Schygulla chante/singt".
She and Rainer Werner Fassbinder made 23 movies together: "Acht Stunden sind kein Tag" , "Berlin Alexanderplatz" , Die bitteren Trnen der Petra von Kant , Bremer Freiheit: Frau Geesche Gottfried - Ein brgerliches Trauerspiel , Die dritte Generation , Fontane Effi Briest , Die Ehe der Maria Braun , Gtter der Pest , Hndler der vier Jahreszeiten , Das Kaffeehaus , Katzelmacher , Liebe ist klter als der Tod , Lili Marleen , Die Niklashauser Fart , Pioniere in Ingolstadt , Rio das Mortes , Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte , Whity , Die Ahnfrau - Oratorium nach Franz Grillparzer , Baal , Der Brutigam, die Komdiantin und der Zuhlter , Mathias Kneissl and Wildwechsel .
Although she played Derek Jacobi s mother in Dead Again , she is five years his junior in real life.
One of Germanys most famous actresses.
Was considered for the lead role in Sophies Choice but Meryl Streep , who won an Academy Award for her performance, was cast instead.
No other actress won more German Film Awards than her (in 1970 for Liebe ist klter als der Tod , in 1971 for Whity , in 1975 for Falsche Bewegung and, in 1979, for Die Ehe der Maria Braun ). Two of them (1970, 1975) were awards for the acting ensemble.
The only German actress to date who received an award from the National Society of Film Critics (in 2009 for her memorable supporting role in Auf der anderen Seite ).
Received a lifetime achievement award for her acting career at the Febiofest in Prague on March 26, 2011.
Was awarded with the Bavarian Cross of Merit on March 24, 2011.
Living in Paris.
(August 2010) Getting a star on the new "Boulevard of the Stars" in Berlin, the German equivalent of the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
(March 2007) She visited Argentina as guest at Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
She was considered for the part of Frantiska Plamnkov in Milada , eventually played by Dagmar Blhov.
Growing up there were always fights about money and apartments not being,big enough. I never wanted to be like people around me. I wanted more,freedom. .
