Maria Schrader
Schrader was born in Hanover and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria. She is especially well known from the film "Aimée & Jaguar", as well as the acclaimed "Liebesleben" ("Love life") that she wrote, produced, and in which she acted. 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", for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. Though her most popular roles as an actor are of the Jewish faith, and many of her films as a screenwriter and director include Jewish characters and revolve around Jewish struggles, Schrader herself is not Jewish.
Work
She directed the award-winning 2007 film "Love Life" and the 2020 Netflix miniseries "Unorthodox", for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. 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.