Maria Schrader

Born/Date of Birth: 27 September 1965
Place of Birth: Hanover, West Germany
Occupation: Actress
Education: Max Reinhardt Seminar
Children: Felice Kaufmann
Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) 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 (2015), 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 ("Love life"), 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 (2015), 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
1992 Max Ophüls Festival, Best Young Actress for I Was on Mars
1995 Mystfest, Best Actress for Burning Life
1995 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life
1995 German Film Awards, Best Leading Actress for Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life, Einer meiner altesten Freunde
1999 49th Berlin International Film Festival, Silver Bear for Best Actress (shared with Juliane Köhler) for Aimée & Jaguar
1999 German Film Awards, Best Leading Actress for Aimée & Jaguar, The Giraffe
1999 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Aimée & Jaguar