Hanna Schygulla
Acting • Born 1943-12-25
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).
Filmography
145 credits
Lili Marleen
Movie • 1981
Willie
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Movie • 1979
Maria Braun
Effi Briest
Movie • 1974
Effi Briest
Gods of the Plague
Movie • 1970
Joanna
A Love in Germany
Movie • 1983
Pauline Kropp
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
Movie • 2022
Hilde Jary
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Movie • 1970
Hanna
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Movie • 1972
Anna Epp, Hans's sister
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Movie • 1972
Karin Thimm
The Edge of Heaven
Movie • 2007
Susanne Staub
Wrong Move
Movie • 1975
Therese
Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe
Movie • 2012
self
Werckmeister Harmonies
Movie • 2001
Tünde Eszter
Katzelmacher
Movie • 1969
Marie
Dead Again
Movie • 1991
Inga
Beware of a Holy Whore
Movie • 1971
Hanna
Godard's Passion
Movie • 1982
Hanna
Love Is Colder Than Death
Movie • 1970
Johanna
Hanna Schygulla - Ikone des deutschen Autorenfilms
Movie • 2021
Self
Sheer Madness
Movie • 1983
Olga
That Night of Varennes
Movie • 1982
Countess Sophie de la Borde
Antonieta
Movie • 1982
Anna
Ophelia
Movie • 2014
Vera
The Delta Force
Movie • 1986
Ingrid
Janela da Alma
Movie • 2001
Self
Circle of Deceit
Movie • 1981
Ariane Nassar
Promised Land
Movie • 2004
Hanna
Peter von Kant
Movie • 2022
Rosemarie
The Future Is Woman
Movie • 1984
Anna
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Movie • 2015
Self
The Story of Piera
Movie • 1983
Eugenia
The Quiet Love
Movie • 2005
Frau Marx
Winter Journey
Movie • 2006
Martha "Mucky" Brenninger
Life's Little Treasures
Movie • 1994
Léna
One Hundred and One Nights
Movie • 1995
Mr. Cinéma's Second Ex-wife
Faust
Movie • 2011
Moneylender's Wife
Whity
Movie • 1971
Hanna
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Movie • 1981
Self
The Niklashausen Journey
Movie • 1970
Johanna
The Third Generation
Movie • 1979
Susanne Gast
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Movie • 1992
Self
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Movie • 1968
Lucy
Poor Things
Movie • 2023
Martha Von Kurtzroc
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
Movie • 1969
Paula
Warsaw: Year 5703
Movie • 1992
Stephania
The Night of the Filmmakers
Movie • 1995
Self
Life, Love & Celluloid
Movie • 1998
Self
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Movie • 1971
Berta
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
Movie • 1976
Self - Interviewee (uncredited)
Bremen Freedom
Movie • 1972
Luisa Mauer
The Blue Exile
Movie • 1993
The Actress
Rio das Mortes
Movie • 1971
Hanna
The Coffee House
Movie • 1970
Lisaura
The Clown
Movie • 1976
Marie
Alicia Bustamante
Movie • 2009
Self
Von Sex bis Simmel
Movie • 2005
Self
The Quiet Roar
Movie • 2014
Eva
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Movie • 2002
Self
Grüße von Rosita aus Peru
Movie • 1976
Narrator (voice)
Das ABC ist subversiv
Movie • 1981
Narrator
Yunan
Movie • 2025
Valeska
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Movie • 1971
Self
Kuckucksei im Gangsternest
Movie • 1969
Maria
Jail Bait
Movie • 1973
Ärztin
Mathias Kneißl
Movie • 1971
Mathilde Schreck
The Sunset Boys
Movie • 1995
Ewa Loehwe
The Girl of Your Dreams
Movie • 1998
Magda Goebbels
Die Revolte
Movie • 1969
Sandra V.
Baal
Movie • 1970
Luise
Golem: The Petrified Garden
Movie • 1993
Michelle
Madame Bäurin
Movie • 1993
Tante Agathe
Das unreine Mal
Movie • 2006
Gerda Albrecht geb. Böhm
Abraham's Gold
Movie • 1990
Barbara 'Bärbel' Hunzinger
Golem, the Spirit of Exile
Movie • 1992
L'Esprit de l'Exil
Hey Stranger
Movie • 1994
Tania
Fassbinder
Movie • 2015
Self
New Year's Eve
Movie • 1978
Society Woman
Intermezzo für fünf Hände
Movie • 1976
Lisa Wegner
Lea
Movie • 1996
Wanda
Casanova
Movie • 1987
Casanova's Mother
Godard Cinema
Movie • 2023
Self
Forever, Lulu
Movie • 1986
Elaine
Magdalena Hausen: Frozen in Time
Movie • 2024
Magdalena (voice)
The Crossing
Movie • 2021
Kyona (alt)/Erzählerin (voice)
Jakob von Gunten
Movie • 1971
Lisa Benjamenta
The Summer of Miss Forbes
Movie • 1989
Mrs. Forbes
Barnum
Movie • 1986
Jenny Lind
Der Stumme
Movie • 1976
Martha
Fassbinder's Women
Movie • 2000
Self
Unless
Movie • 2016
Danielle
Avanti
Movie • 2012
Suzanne
Adventure of Catherine C.
Movie • 1990
Fanny Hohenstein
Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
Movie • 2015
Self
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
Movie • 2007
Self
Lucky
Movie • 2017
Lotte
Der Katzensteg
Movie • 1975
Regine Hackelberg
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Movie • 2012
Self
The Prayer
Movie • 2018
Sister Myriam
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
Movie • 2017
Self
Angelo Nero
Movie • 1998
Eloide
Heiligendamm
Movie • 2010
A. van der Qualen
Miss Arizona
Movie • 1988
Mici
Po-lin. Shards of Memory
Movie • 2008
Narrator - German version (voice)
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Movie • 2020
Self
Clara, une passion française
Movie • 2009
Clara
The Mystery of Henri Pick
Movie • 2019
Ludmila Blavitsky
Irmi
Movie • 2020
Narrator
End of the Commune?
Movie • 1970
Self
Scénario du film Passion
Movie • 1982
Self
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Movie • 2017
Self
Everything Went Fine
Movie • 2021
Swiss Lady
Lusitanian Illusion
Movie • 2010
Erika Mann (voice)
The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
Movie • 2020
Self - Quote Reader (voice)
Lullaby to my Father
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
L'aide-mémoire
Movie • 1984
Suzanne
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
Movie • 1982
Self
Der große Zusammenbruch
Movie
Denkste Puppe
Movie • 2025
Self
Татарская княжна
Movie • 2009
older Anna Akhmatova
Godard Cinema
Movie • 2023
Vijay and I
Movie • 2013
Will's Mother
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
TV • 1972
Marion Andreas
The Great Runaway
TV • 1979
Frau Piesch
Stars in the Ring
TV • 1959
Self
Berlin Alexanderplatz
TV • 1980
Eva
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Catharina
Peter the Great
TV • 1986
Catherine Skevronskaya
Kommissar Stolberg
TV • 2006
Marita Dennett
Ad Vitam
TV • 2018
- Participation -
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
TV • 2006
Self
DAS!
TV • 1991
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Beckmann
TV • 1999
Self
Wortwechsel
TV • 1982
Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV • 2002
Self
5 nach 10
TV • 1981
Self
Kulturzeit
TV • 1995
self
Im Dialog
TV • 1997
self
ZIBB
TV • 2003
Self
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
Self
I Sell My Dreams
TV • 1994
Alma
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
TV • 2026
Self