Hanna Schygulla

Nationality:
German
Birthdate:
12/25/1943
Birthplace:
Kattowitz, Occupied Poland
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biography
A luminous bold-featured, blonde Teutonic beauty, Hanna Schygulla met Rainer Werner Fassbinder while taking an acting class in Munich and began working with him at the Munich Action Theater, where he assembled the nucleus of his cinematic stock company. She appeared in nearly 20 features in 12 years for the workaholic director, her open-hearted sensuality burning brighter than the upper-class, intellectual alternative provided by another Fassbinder favorite Margit Carstensen. Providing the dramatic cornerstone of some of his finest films, Schygulla became established as one of the leading Continued
Credits
Susanne Staub
2008
Actor
2004
Tunde Eszter
2001
Paulina Kropp
1983
Hanna
1982
Willie Bunterberg
1981
Luise Maurer
Ingrid
1986
Doctor
Woman in Restauraunt
Eva Lehwe
Marta
Martha
Lisaura
Susanne Gast
Tania
Wanda
Mitzi
Spirit of Exile
Countess Sophie de la Borde
Therese Farner
Actor
The Actress
Stephania
Arlane Nassar
Eugenia
Marie
Elaine Hines
Effi Briest
Miss Forbes--Governess
milestones
Year
Milestone
1945 
With mother, fled to Munich when the Red Army approached Kattowitz
1949 
Met father (who had been held as a POW during WWII) for the first time at age five (date approximate)
1968 
Joined Munich Action Theater, where she worked with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (date approximate)
1968 
Acted in the short "The Bridegroom, The Comedienne, and the Pimp", written and directed by Jean-Marie Straub; Fassbinder played the pimp
1969 
First films with Fassbinder as director, "Love Is Colder Than Death" (as a prostitute), "Gods of the Plague" (initial collaboration with actress Margarethe von Trotta) and "Katzelmacher" (film version of writer-director's first stage play)
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