Hanna Schygulla
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).
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Acting History
2025
Yunan as Valeska
2025Denkste Puppe as Self
2024Magdalena Hausen: Frozen in Time as Magdalena (voice)
2023Poor Things as Martha Von Kurtzroc
2023Godard Cinema as Self
2022Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair as Hilde Jary
2022Peter von Kant as Rosemarie
2021Hanna Schygulla - Ikone des deutschen Autorenfilms as Self
2021The Crossing as Kyona (alt)/Erzählerin (voice)
2021Everything Went Fine as Swiss Lady
2020The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf as Self - Quote Reader (voice)
2020Irmi as Narrator
2020Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful as Self
2019The Mystery of Henri Pick as Ludmila Blavitsky
2018Ad Vitam as - Participation -
2018The Prayer as Sister Myriam
2017Lucky as Lotte
2017Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary as Self
2017Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion as Self
2016Unless as Danielle
2015Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte as Self
2015Fassbinder as Self
2015Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover as Self
2014Ophelia as Vera
2014The Quiet Roar as Eva
2012Lullaby to my Father as Narrator (voice)
2012Avanti as Suzanne
2012Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun as Self
2012Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe as self
2011Faust as Moneylender's Wife
2010Lusitanian Illusion as Erika Mann (voice)
2010Heiligendamm as A. van der Qualen
2009Clara, une passion française as Clara
2009Татарская княжна as older Anna Akhmatova
2009Alicia Bustamante as Self
2008Po-lin. Shards of Memory as Narrator - German version (voice)
2007Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story as Self
2007The Edge of Heaven as Susanne Staub
2006Das unreine Mal as Gerda Albrecht geb. Böhm
2006Winter Journey as Martha "Mucky" Brenninger
2006Kommissar Stolberg as Marita Dennett
2006Filmlegenden. Deutsch as Self
2005The Quiet Love as Frau Marx
2005Von Sex bis Simmel as Self
2004Promised Land as Hanna
2003ZIBB as Self
2002Fassbinder in Hollywood as Self
2002Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
2001Janela da Alma as Self
2001Werckmeister Harmonies as Tünde Eszter
2000Fassbinder's Women as Self
1999Beckmann as Self
1998The Girl of Your Dreams as Magda Goebbels
1998Angelo Nero as Eloide
1998Life, Love & Celluloid as Self
1997Im Dialog as self
1996Lea as Wanda
1995Kulturzeit as self
1995The Sunset Boys as Ewa Loehwe
1995The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
1995One Hundred and One Nights as Mr. Cinéma's Second Ex-wife
1994I Sell My Dreams as Alma
1994Life's Little Treasures as Léna
1994Hey Stranger as Tania
1993The Blue Exile as The Actress
1993Golem: The Petrified Garden as Michelle
1993Madame Bäurin as Tante Agathe
1992Golem, the Spirit of Exile as L'Esprit de l'Exil
1992Warsaw: Year 5703 as Stephania
1992Morgenmagazin as Self
1992I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self
1991Dead Again as Inga
1991DAS! as Self
1990Adventure of Catherine C. as Fanny Hohenstein
1990Abraham's Gold as Barbara 'Bärbel' Hunzinger
1989The Summer of Miss Forbes as Mrs. Forbes
1988Miss Arizona as Mici
1987Casanova as Casanova's Mother
1986Barnum as Jenny Lind
1986Forever, Lulu as Elaine
1986The Delta Force as Ingrid
1986Peter the Great as Catherine Skevronskaya
1984The Future Is Woman as Anna
1984L'aide-mémoire as Suzanne
1983A Love in Germany as Pauline Kropp
1983Sheer Madness as Olga
1983The Story of Piera as Eugenia
1982Antonieta as Anna
1982Godard's Passion as Hanna
1982The Night of Varennes as Countess Sophie de la Borde
1982Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario as Self
1982Scénario du film Passion as Self
1982Wortwechsel as Self
1981Circle of Deceit as Ariane Nassar
1981Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Self
1981Das ABC ist subversiv as Narrator
19815 nach 10 as Self
1981Lili Marleen as Willie
1980Berlin Alexanderplatz as Eva
1979The Great Runaway as Frau Piesch
1979The Third Generation as Susanne Gast
1979The Marriage of Maria Braun as Maria Braun
1979NDR Talk Show as Self
1978New Year's Eve as Society Woman
1976Intermezzo für fünf Hände as Lisa Wegner
1976The Clown as Marie
1976Der Stumme as Martha
1976The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me as Self - Interviewee (uncredited)
1976Grüße von Rosita aus Peru as Narrator (voice)
1975Der Katzensteg as Regine Hackelberg
1975Wrong Move as Therese
1974Spécial cinéma as Self
1974Effi Briest as Effi Briest
1973Jail Bait as Ärztin
1972Bremen Freedom as Luisa Mauer
1972Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day as Marion Andreas
1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant as Karin Thimm
1972The Merchant of Four Seasons as Anna Epp, Hans's sister
1971Jakob von Gunten as Lisa Benjamenta
1971Beware of a Holy Whore as Hanna
1971Whity as Hanna
1971Mathias Kneißl as Mathilde Schreck
1971Pioneers in Ingolstadt as Berta
1971Rio das Mortes as Hanna
1971Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 as Self
1970Scene of the Crime as Catharina
1970The Niklashausen Journey as Johanna
1970Gods of the Plague as Joanna
1970Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? as Hanna
1970End of the Commune? as Self
1970The Coffee House as Lisaura
1970Love Is Colder Than Death as Johanna
1970Baal as Luise
1969Kuckucksei im Gangsternest as Maria
1969Katzelmacher as Marie
1969Die Revolte as Sandra V.
1969Hunting Scenes from Bavaria as Paula
1968The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp as Lucy
1959Stars in the Ring as Self
1951German Film Award as Self
1948Bambi as Self
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