
Hanna Schygulla
Department: Acting
Biography
Hanna Schygulla (born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies (including his first feature film), the most-acclaimed being The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (for which she won the Silver Bear).
Known For

Lili Marleen
1981

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979

Effi Briest
1974

Gods of the Plague
1970

A Love in Germany
1983

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
2022

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970

The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972

The Edge of Heaven
2007

Wrong Move
1975

Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe
2012

Werckmeister Harmonies
2001

Katzelmacher
1969

Dead Again
1991

Beware of a Holy Whore
1971

Godard's Passion
1982

Love Is Colder Than Death
1970

Hanna Schygulla - Ikone des deutschen Autorenfilms
2021

Sheer Madness
1983

That Night of Varennes
1982

Antonieta
1982

Ophelia
2014

The Delta Force
1986

Janela da Alma
2001

Circle of Deceit
1981

Promised Land
2004

Peter von Kant
2022

The Future Is Woman
1984

Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
2015

The Story of Piera
1983

The Quiet Love
2005

Winter Journey
2006

Life's Little Treasures
1994

One Hundred and One Nights
1995

Faust
2011

Whity
1971

Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981

The Niklashausen Journey
1970

The Third Generation
1979

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
1968

Poor Things
2023

Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
1969

Warsaw: Year 5703
1992

The Night of the Filmmakers
1995

Life, Love & Celluloid
1998

Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1971

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1976

Bremen Freedom
1972

The Blue Exile
1993

Rio das Mortes
1971

The Coffee House
1970

The Clown
1976

Alicia Bustamante
2009

Von Sex bis Simmel
2005

The Quiet Roar
2014

Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002

Grüße von Rosita aus Peru
1976

Das ABC ist subversiv
1981

Yunan
2025

Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971

Kuckucksei im Gangsternest
1969

Jail Bait
1973

Mathias Kneißl
1971

The Sunset Boys
1995

The Girl of Your Dreams
1998

Die Revolte
1969

Baal
1970

Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993

Madame Bäurin
1993

Das unreine Mal
2006

Abraham's Gold
1990

Golem, the Spirit of Exile
1992

Hey Stranger
1994

Fassbinder
2015

New Year's Eve
1978

Intermezzo für fünf Hände
1976

Lea
1996

Casanova
1987

Godard Cinema
2023

Forever, Lulu
1986

Magdalena Hausen: Frozen in Time
2024

The Crossing
2021

Jakob von Gunten
1971

The Summer of Miss Forbes
1989

Barnum
1986

Der Stumme
1976

Fassbinder's Women
2000

Unless
2016

Avanti
2012

Adventure of Catherine C.
1990

Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
2015

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
2007

Lucky
2017

Der Katzensteg
1975

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012

The Prayer
2018

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
2017

Angelo Nero
1998

Heiligendamm
2010

Miss Arizona
1988

Po-lin. Shards of Memory
2008

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
2020

Clara, une passion française
2009

The Mystery of Henri Pick
2019

Irmi
2020

End of the Commune?
1970

Scénario du film Passion
1982

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
2017

Everything Went Fine
2021

Lusitanian Illusion
2010

The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
2020

Lullaby to my Father
2012

L'aide-mémoire
1984

Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
1982

Der große Zusammenbruch
—

Denkste Puppe
2025

Татарская княжна
2009

Godard Cinema
2023

Vijay and I
2013

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
1972

The Great Runaway
1979

Stars in the Ring
1959

Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980

Scene of the Crime
1970

Peter the Great
1986

Kommissar Stolberg
2006

Ad Vitam
2018

Spécial cinéma
1974

German Film Award
1951

Bambi
1948

Filmlegenden. Deutsch
2006

DAS!
1991

NDR Talk Show
1979

Beckmann
1999

Wortwechsel
1982

Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002

5 nach 10
1981

Kulturzeit
1995

Im Dialog
1997

ZIBB
2003

Morgenmagazin
1992

I Sell My Dreams
1994

Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026