Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla made 23 films with Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Bremen Freedom (1972), The Third Generation (1979), Effi Briest (1974), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Gods of the Plague (1970), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), The Coffee House (1970), Katzelmacher (1969), Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Lili Marleen (1981), The Niklashausen Journey (1970), Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971), Rio das Mortes (1971), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), Whity (1971), The Ancestress - Oratorio after Franz Grillparzer (1971), Baal (1970), The Groom, the Actress and the Pimp (1968), Mathias Kneissl (1971) and Jail Bait (1972).

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Hanna Schygulla was considered for the lead role in Sophie's Choice (1982), but Meryl Streep was cast instead and won an Oscar for her performance.

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Although Hanna Schygulla played Derek Jacobi's mother in Dead Again (1991), in real life she is five years younger than him.

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No other actress has won more German Film Awards than Hanna Schygulla (for Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) in 1970, Whity (1971) in 1971, Wrong Move (1975) in 1975 and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) in 1979). Two of these (1970, 1975) were awards for the acting ensemble.

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Hanna Schygulla has lived in Paris since 1981 and speaks good French as a result.

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In the 1990s Hanna Schygulla began singing and released the album "Hanna Schygulla chante/singt".

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Hanna Schygulla is the only German actress to have won an award from the National Society of Film Critics to date (in 2009, for her memorable supporting role in The Edge of Heaven (2007)).

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Hanna Schygulla is one of Germany's most famous actresses.

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In the 1960s Hanna Schygulla studied Romance languages and German while taking acting lessons in Munich in her spare time.

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Hanna Schygulla visited Argentina as a guest of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

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On 24 March 2011 Hanna Schygulla was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

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On 26 March 2011 Hanna Schygulla received a lifetime achievement award for her acting career at Febiofest in Prague.

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Hanna Schygulla was considered for the role of Frantiska Plamínková in Milada (2017), which was ultimately played by Dagmar Bláhová.

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Hanna Schygulla won the Silver Bear at the 1979 Berlin Film Festival for Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun and the Best Actress Award at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival for Marco Ferreri's The Story of Piera.

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In the 1990s Hanna Schygulla became a chanson singer. In Juliane Lorenz's documentary Life, Love and Celluloid (1998), which deals with Fassbinder and related subjects, Schygulla performs several songs.

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In 1987 Hanna Schygulla served as a jury member at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.

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