
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).
Movies (103)

Yunan
2025

Magdalena Hausen: Frozen in Time
2024

Poor Things
2023

Godard Cinema
2023

Godard Cinema
2023

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
2022

Peter von Kant
2022

Hanna Schygulla - Ikone des deutschen Autorenfilms
2021

The Crossing
2021

Everything Went Fine
2021

The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
2020

Irmi
2020

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
2020

The Mystery of Henri Pick
2019

The Prayer
2018

Lucky
2017

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
2017

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

Unless
2016

Fassbinder
2015

The Quiet Roar
2014

Vijay and I
2013

Lullaby to my Father
2012

Avanti
2012

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012

Faust
2011

Lusitanian Illusion
2010

Heiligendamm
2010

Clara, une passion française
2009

Po-lin. Shards of Memory
2008

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

The Edge of Heaven
2007

Winter Journey
2006

The Quiet Love
2005

Promised Land
2004

Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002

Janela da Alma
2001

Werckmeister Harmonies
2001

Fassbinder's Women
2000

The Girl of Your Dreams
1998

Angelo Nero
1998

Lea
1996

The Sunset Boys
1995

The Night of the Filmmakers
1995

One Hundred and One Nights
1995

Life's Little Treasures
1994

Hey Stranger
1994

The Blue Exile
1993

Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993

Madame Bäurin
1993

Golem, the Spirit of Exile
1992

Warsaw: Year 5703
1992

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992

Dead Again
1991

Adventure of Catherine C.
1990

The Summer of Miss Forbes
1989

Miss Arizona
1988

Casanova
1987

Barnum
1986

Forever, Lulu
1986

The Delta Force
1986

The Future Is Woman
1984

L'aide-mémoire
1984

A Love in Germany
1983

Sheer Madness
1983

The Story of Piera
1983

Antonieta
1982

Godard's Passion
1982

That Night of Varennes
1982

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

Scénario du film Passion
1982

Circle of Deceit
1981

Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981

Das ABC ist subversiv
1981

Lili Marleen
1981

The Third Generation
1979

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979

New Year's Eve
1978

The Clown
1976

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1976

Der Katzensteg
1975

Wrong Move
1975

Effi Briest
1974

Jail Bait
1973

Bremen Freedom
1972

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972

The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972

Jakob von Gunten
1971

Beware of a Holy Whore
1971

Whity
1971

Mathias Kneißl
1971

Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1971

Rio das Mortes
1971

The Niklashausen Journey
1970

Gods of the Plague
1970

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970

End of the Commune?
1970

The Coffee House
1970

Love Is Colder Than Death
1970

Baal
1970

Katzelmacher
1969

Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
1969

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
1968
TV Shows (16)

Ad Vitam
2018

Kommissar Stolberg
2006

Beckmann
1999

Kulturzeit
1995

I Sell My Dreams
1994

Morgenmagazin
1992

DAS!
1991

Peter the Great
1986

Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980

The Great Runaway
1979

NDR Talk Show
1979

Spécial cinéma
1974

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
1972

Scene of the Crime
1970

Stars in the Ring
1959

Bambi
1948