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name: "Maria Schrader"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "27 September 1965"
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updated: "2026-09-17T20:13:23.332293+00:00"
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# Maria Schrader

Director. Born 27 September 1965 in Hannover, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 27 September 1965, Hannover, Germany
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Anna Winger](https://film.one/person/anna-winger.md)
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Schrader, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63296, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0775056/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/22686

## Biography

Maria Schrader is a German actress, screenwriter and director. Born on 27 September 1965 in Hannover, she trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and began her career on stage before moving into film and television.

She is known for her leading role as Felice Schragenheim in the 1999 film *Aimée & Jaguar*, for which she received several awards, and as Lenora Rauch in the series *Deutschland 83* (2015) and its sequels. As a director she made her feature debut with *Liebesleben* (2007) and has since directed the miniseries *Unorthodox* (2020), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, the feature *I'm Your Man* (2021) and *She Said* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Deutschland* (2015), Fi1m 74, as Lenora Rauch — [page](https://film.one/tv/deutschland.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Parallel Me* (2025), series, as Ariadne
- *Sukowa - Playful Like A Child* (2024), Acting
- *Diese Sendung ist kein Spiel – Die unheimliche Welt des Eduard Zimmermann* (2023), as Sprecherin
- *She Said* (2022), Director
- *I'm Your Man* (2021), Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Unorthodox* (2020), series, Director
- *Kulenkampff's Shoes* (2018), as Narrator (voice)
- *The City and the City* (2018), series, as Senior Detective Dhatt
- *Hanni & Nanni 4* (2017), as Frau Theobald
- *Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe* (2016), Director, Writer
- *Deutschland* (2015), series, as Lenora Rauch — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/deutschland.md)
- *Lose My Self* (2014), as Lena
- *Schwestern* (2013), as Saskia Kerkhoff
- *Die Chefin* (2012), series, as Johanna Leonhard
- *Alleingang* (2012), as Sonja Zuckmaier
- *In Darkness* (2011), as Paulina Chiger
- *The Crocodiles: All for One* (2011), as Kai's mother
- *The Crocodiles Strike Back* (2010), as Kais Mutter
- *Die Seele eines Mörders* (2009), as Orli Schochan
- *The Crocodiles* (2009), as Kai's mother
- *Patchwork* (2008), as Xenia Napolitano-Freitag
- *Love Life* (2007), Director, Screenplay
- *Auf dem Vulkan* (2007), as Eva Jung
- *A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper* (2005), as Felicite
- *Acting* (2005), as Annabella
- *Snowland* (2005), as Elisabeth
- *The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea* (2004), as Felicite (uncredited)
- *Rosenstrasse* (2003), as Hannah Weinstein
- *I'm The Father* (2002), as Melanie Krieger
- *The Nibelungs* (2002), as Kriemhild
- *Operation Rubikon* (2002), as Sophie Wolf
- *Advertising Rules!* (2001), as Johanna von Schulenberg
- *Emil and the Detectives* (2001), as Pastorin Hummel
- *Josephine* (2000), as Al
- *The Wedding Cow* (1999), as Luxury Hotel Concierge
- *The Giraffe* (1999), Lena Katz, Writer
- *Aimée & Jaguar* (1999), as Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar)
- *Am I Beautiful?* (1998), as Elke
- *The Unfish* (1997), as Sophie Moor
- *Der Kindermord* (1997), as Katrin Menzel
- *Flirt* (1996), as Woman at Bar
- *Risiko Null – Der Tod steht auf dem Speiseplan* (1995), as Ute Böning
- *Silent Night* (1995), Julia, Writer
- *One of My Oldest Friends* (1995), as Marion
- *Burning Life* (1994), as Anna Breuel
- *Nobody Loves Me* (1994), as Fanny Fink
- *Half the World* (1993), as Sunny
- *Magic Müller* (1993), as Petra
- *Without Me* (1993), as Mona
- *My Name is Victor* (1993), as Yvette
- *I Was on Mars* (1991), Sylwa, Writer
- *RobbyKallePaul* (1989), as Malu
- *Peter Strohm* (1989), series, as Leonie
- *Golden Boy* (1988), as Dolores
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Iris Raven
- *An Impossible Wedding*, as Holly
- *Arbeit und Struktur*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Maria Schrader](https://film.one/media/person/204466/gallery-a70a77eee7e9.jpg) Maria Schrader — Christine Fenzl, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/SchraderMaria39Fenzl_%28cropped%29.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![International Jury of Berlinale 2025: Rodrigo Moreno, Maria Schrader, Todd Haynes, Nabil Ayouch, Fan Bingbing, Bina Daigeler, Amy Nicholson](https://film.one/media/person/204466/gallery-f410eb339105.jpg) International Jury of Berlinale 2025: Rodrigo Moreno, Maria Schrader, Todd Haynes, Nabil Ayouch, Fan Bingbing, Bina Daigeler, Amy Nicholson — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/International_Jury_of_Berlinale_2025.jpg/1280px-International_Jury_of_Berlinale_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maria Schrader at the 20th Berlinale reception in the North Rhine-Westphalian state representation, Berlinale 2024](https://film.one/media/person/204466/gallery-c4cb7a70299c.jpg) Maria Schrader at the 20th Berlinale reception in the North Rhine-Westphalian state representation, Berlinale 2024 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/MKr350768_Maria_Schrader_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2024%29.jpg/1280px-MKr350768_Maria_Schrader_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2024%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maren Ade und Maria Schrader beim NRW Kinoprogrammpreis, November 2016, Köln.](https://film.one/media/person/204466/gallery-aa27deacac49.jpg) Maren Ade und Maria Schrader beim NRW Kinoprogrammpreis, November 2016, Köln. — 9EkieraM1, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Maren_Ade_und_Maria_Schrader.jpg/1280px-Maren_Ade_und_Maria_Schrader.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maren Ade und Maria Schrader mit Petra Müller beim NRW Kinoprogrammpreis, November 2016, Köln.](https://film.one/media/person/204466/gallery-641df20954a6.jpg) Maren Ade und Maria Schrader mit Petra Müller beim NRW Kinoprogrammpreis, November 2016, Köln. — 9EkieraM1, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Maren_Ade_und_Maria_Schrader_mit_Filmstiftungs-Gesch%C3%A4ftsf%C3%BChrerin_Petra_M%C3%BCller.jpg/1280px-Maren_Ade_und_Maria_Schrader_mit_Filmstiftungs-Gesch%C3%A4ftsf%C3%BChrerin_Petra_M%C3%BCller.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maren Ade und Maria Schrader mit Filmstiftungs-Geschäftsführerin Petra Müller beim NRW Kinoprogrammpreis, November 2016, Köln.](https://film.one/media/person/204466/gallery-c152f39215ea.jpg) Maren Ade und Maria Schrader mit Filmstiftungs-Geschäftsführerin Petra Müller beim NRW Kinoprogrammpreis, November 2016, Köln. — 9EkieraM1, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Maren_Ade_und_Maria_Schrader_mit_Filmstiftungs-Gesch%C3%A4ftsf%C3%BChrerin_Petra_M%C3%BCller_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Maren_Ade_und_Maria_Schrader_mit_Filmstiftungs-Gesch%C3%A4ftsf%C3%BChrerin_Petra_M%C3%BCller_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won

- 2020: Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special (won), for *Unorthodox*

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 2018: Berliner Bär (won)

### Other awards — 7 won

- Carl Zuckmayer Medal 2025: Carl Zuckmayer Medal (won)
- Romy 2023: Romy (won), for *She Said*
- German Film Award for Best Direction 2021: German Film Award for Best Direction (won), for *I'm Your Man*
- German Film Award for Best Screenplay 2021: German Film Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *I'm Your Man*
- Romy 2021: Romy (won)
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2017: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (won), for *Before Dawn*
- Herbert Strate Award 2016: Herbert Strate Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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