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Born: Dec 25, 1943 - Kattowitz, Germany (now Poland)
Born in German-occupied Poland, Hanna Schygulla was raised in Munich, studying languages and literature at that city's university. Turning to acting in her early 20s, Ms. Schygulla worked extensively at the experimental Munich Action Theater, where she met the prolific and highly volatile actor/director/writer Rainer Werner Fassbinder. From 1968, Hannah starred in 20 Fassbinder film productions, retaining her professional ties to the director despite frequent and increasingly violent personal and professional disagreements. The Berlin Film Fest honored Schygulla with their best actress prize for her stunning work in the title role of Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). During her years with Fassbinder, Schygulla was also well-served in films directed by Schlondorff, Godard, Wajda and Scola.
Hanna Schygulla was born in Katowice (then Kattowitz) in 1943
and moved to Munich with her mother in 1945. After graduating
from high school, she went to Paris for a year as an au-pair. In
1964, she returned to Munich to study language and literature. In
1967 and 1968 she also studied acting and came to the Action-
Theater in 1967 because of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
In 1968, Hanna Schygulla, Peer Raben and Fassbinder with
others founded the Antitheater in Munich. After small roles in
films for directors such as Jean-Marie Straub and Peter
Fleischman, Hanna Schygulla starred in the
Bundesfilmpreis-winning film Love is Colder Than Death,
which was her first film for Fassbinder. During the following
years she appeared in all his films and many of his stage
productions. After their first box-office success with Effi Breist
in 1974, there was a break in their collaboration. Until 1977
Hanna Schygulla worked with other directors and won the
Bundesfilmpreis for her performance in Wim Wenders' Wrong
Move. In 1978 she started working with Fassbinder again with
the post-war drama The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979
Bundesfilmpreis and Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival)
which won international acclaim, as did Lili Marleen (1980).
She continued her theatre career with two tours in 1976 and 1980
and an engagement with the Munich Kammerspiel from 1979.
She has also appeared sporadically in international productions.
In 1983 she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film
Festival for her role in Marco Ferreri's La Storia di Piera. 1990
marked her return to German cinema with Jörg Graser's
Abraham's Gold, which was entered in the Cannes Film
Festival. Hanna Schygulla now lives in Paris.
1968..........Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp
1969..........Götter der Pest ...aka Gods of the Plague
1969..........Hunting Scenes in Bavaria .... Paula
1969..........Kaelter als der Tod ...aka Love is Colder Than Death
1969..........Katzelmacher .... Marie
1969..........Kuckucksei im Gangsternest, Das
1970..........Baal
1970..........Das Kaffeehaus
1970..........Die Niklashauser Fahrt
1970..........Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?
1971 ..........Jakob Von Gunten
1971..........Beware the Holy Whore
1971..........Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
1971..........Mathias Kneissl
1971..........Recruits in Ingolstadt
1971..........Whity
1972..........Haus Am Meer
1972..........The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
1972..........Wildwechsel ....aka Jail Bait
1974..........Effi Briest ....aka Fontane Effi Briest
1974..........Falsche Bewegung ...aka The Wrong Move
1975..........Ansichten Eines Clowns ...aka The Clown
1979..........Die Dritte Generation ....aka The Third Generation
1979..........The Marriage of Maria Braun
1980..........Berlin Alexanderplatz
1981..........Die Fälschung....aka Le Faussaire
1981..........Lili Marleen
1982..........Antonieta
1982..........La Nuit De Varennes
1982..........Passion
1983..........Eine Liebe in Deutschland
1983..........Heller Wahn ....aka Friends and Husbands....aka L' Amie....Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
Hanna Schygulla and Angela Winkler are the stars of the German psychological drama Friends and Husbands. Having both been burned by unhappy relationships with men, Schygulla and Winkler become more and more reliant upon each other. The men in their lives can't come to grips with their strong friendship, and begin writing off Schygulla and Winkler as "oddballs." As in most of her films, writer/director Margarethe von Trotta probes the unspoken human complexities that draw people together. Von Trotta also weaves a political subtext into the proceedings: it isn't immediately obvious, but it's there all the same.
1983..........La Storia di Piera...aka Story of Piera ... This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla). The liberated Eugenia and her spaced-out, husband (Marcello Mastroianni) -- a professor -- live in a small provincial Italian town, where Eugenia is noticed as she zooms around on her bicycle and chats up strangers at the train station. While still no more than a grown child, Piera -- in tight dresses -- goes with her mother for a threesome when she engages in sexual relations with other men. By the time Piera has become an adult, both of her parents are in separate mental hospitals -- and both (even the father) are still sexually eccentric, to say the least. (Hanna Schygulla) won the "Best Actress" award at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of Eugenia.
1984..........Il Futuro e Donna....aka The Future Is Woman......A story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three protagonists is strange, at the very least. Anna (Hanna Schygulla) and Gordon (Niels Arestrup) invite the expecting Malvina (Ornella Muti) to live with them.
1986..........Barnum
1986..........The Delta Force
1987..........Casanova
1987..........El Verano de la Senorita Forbes
1987..........Forever, Lulu ....aka Crazy Streets
1988..........Miss Arizona
1989..........Abraham's Gold
1990..........Aventure de Catherine C.
1991..........Dead Again
1992..........Golem, L'esprit de L'exil
1993..........Andre
1993..........Aux Petits Bonheurs .....aka Life's Little Treasures
1994..........Hey Stranger
1995..........Die Nacht der Regisseure....aka The Night of the Filmmakers
1995..........Les Cent et une Nuits de Simon Cinema
1996..........Lea .... Wanda
1996..........Words .....aka Milim
1997.......... Chronique .....aka Chronicle
1998..........Black Out .... Eloide Prinzivalle
1998..........Girl of Your Dreams, The
1998..........Life, Love & Celluloid
1998..........Waiting for Sunset
1999..........Hanna Schygulla Sings
2000..........Werkmeister Harmoniak