Maria Schrader


Maria Schrader is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award winning 2007 film Love Life that was based on a novel by Zeruya Shalev. She also starred in the German international hit TV series Deutschland 83, known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television.

Work

Maria Schrader was born in Hanover and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.
She is especially well known from the film Aimée & Jaguar, as well as the acclaimed Liebesleben, in which she wrote, acted, and produced. She has also written other films: RobbyKallePaul; I was on Mars; Stille Nacht and Meschugge. She co-directed I was on Mars with Dani Levy, whom she dated until 1999.
Schrader was part of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000.
Schrader played the part of Martin Rauch's aunt in Deutschland 83, an 8 episode TV series, which was the first German-language TV series to be broadcast on US television. It also became popular in the UK, airing in early 2016 on Channel 4.
In 2020 Schrader directed the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.

Personal life

Maria Schrader has one child with director Rainer Kaufmann, a daughter named Felice, whose name was inspired by Schrader's character in the film Aimée & Jaguar.

Awards