Work

Maria Schrader was born in Hanover and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

She is especially well known from the film Aimée & Jaguar, as well as the acclaimed Liebesleben ("Love life"), in which she wrote, acted, and produced. 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), 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.

Personal life

Maria Schrader has one child with director Rainer Kaufmann (de), a daughter named Felice, whose name was inspired by Schrader's character in the film Aimée & Jaguar.

Awards

• 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
• 1999 German Film Awards, Best Leading Actress for Aimée & Jaguar, The Giraffe
• 1999 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Aimée & Jaguar

Selected Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director
1992	I was on Mars	Silva	Dani Levy	with Dani Levy
1994	Nobody Loves Me (de)	Fanny Fink	Doris Dörrie	with Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Elisabeth Trissenaar
	Burning Life	Anna	Peter Welz	with Anna Thalbach, Max Tidof
1995	Silent Night	Julia	Dani Levy	with Jürgen Vogel
1997	Der Unfisch	Sophie Moor	Robert Dornhelm	with Eva Herzig (de), Andreas Lust (de), Georges Kern, August Schmölzer, Karl Merkatz, Bibiana Zeller (de), Rudolf Wessely, Erwin Leder
1998	Meschugge	Lena Katz	Dani Levy	with Dani Levy
	Bin ich schön? (de)	Elke	Doris Dörrie	with Senta Berger, Gottfried John, Iris Berben, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Franka Potente, Dietmar Schönherr, Heike Makatsch, Otto Sander, Joachim Król
1999	Aimée & Jaguar	Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar)	Max Färberböck	with Juliane Köhler, Heike Makatsch, Johanna Wokalek
2001	Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man	Johanna von Schulenberg	Lars Kraume (de)	with Götz George, Alexander Scheer (de), Chulpan Khamatova, Vadim Glowna
	Emil und die Detektive	Pastorin Hummel	Franziska Buch	with Jürgen Vogel
2002	Väter (de)	Melanie Krieger	Dani Levy	with Sebastian Blomberg (de), Christiane Paul
2003	Rosenstrasse	Hannah Weinstein	Margarethe von Trotta	with Katja Riemann
2005	Schneeland	Elisabeth	Hans W. Geißendörfer	with Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Mühe, Thomas Kretschmann, Joachim Król, Susanne Lothar
2011	In Darkness	Paulina Chiger	Agnieszka Holland	with Robert Więckiewicz
2015	Deutschland 83	Lenora Rauch	Edward Berger, Samira Radsi	with Jonas Nay, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth, Sonja Gerhardt, Ludwig Trepte, Alexander Beyer, Lisa Tomaschewsky

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