Hanna Schygulla has influenced the German post-war movie like few Actresses before her. 25. December Schygulla,””, 75 years old. A look back at a life between fame and criticism.
As struck by lightning and clear as glass wants to know Rainer Werner Fassbinder, “Schygulla” would be the Star of his films. So at least it is described in “R. W. Fassbinder: Illustrated list of works 1969 – 1982”, published in 2016. Today is Fassbinder as the most important representative of the New German cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. Fassbinder makes Hanna Schygulla to the face of his movies, and the icon of the German post-war film.
Fassbinder’s Muse
In 1943, in upper Silesia born, flees Hanna Schygulla with her family to Munich. She studied German Philology and romance languages and taking acting lessons. In the drama school she meets in 1963, the self-taught Fassbinder. You will be part of the “Nouvelle Vague” influenced “Anti-theatre” and the so-called “Clans” to him. Your first role as a sensuous gangster bride in Fassbinder’s first full-length feature film “love is colder than death” (1969) is the Start of your career. Up to Fassbinder’s untimely death at the age of 37, she plays in just twelve years, in 23 of his films. Schygulla is Fassbinder’s Muse, the drive and the Inspiration to be creative. For him, it’s that time of the naive, fragile, lascivious, mysterious woman, a mother figure.
In 1981, Hanna Schygulla plays the Lale Anderson in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s last Film “Lili Marleen”
Character actor of female roles
Schygulla is, much like your fellow actress Barbara Sukowa, a character actress of significant woman in the post-war film history roles. She shines in her role of “Effie Briest” (1974) and is called the “Lili Marleen” (1980) “Underground Diva” of the 1980s. The international breakthrough finally with her performance in “The marriage of Maria Braun” (1978), for which you are at the Berlinale with the Golden bear will be awarded. From then on, it rotates with international Directors such as Andrzej Wajda’s “A love in Germany” (1983), and Marco Ferreri in “The story of Piera” (1983). Here, too, you price the cast member.
In the years 1981 to 2014 Schygulla moved their main residence to Paris. It will be a little silent to the character actress. She mainly takes care of the care of their sick parents. In 2005, turning it after 20 years again for the first time in Germany. Her performance in Fatih akin’s Film “the other side” (2007) will be well-received by critics. In 2014, they moved their main residence back to Germany. Since then, she is a Berliner.
Criticism to Remarks at #MeToo debate
Under criticism, with numerous film award-winning actress and chanson singer got in a fight with statements that she made in the Wake of the #MeToo debate. Similar to their in the same year as you-born French colleague, Catherine Deneuve also turned the #MeToo debate publicly in question. Cooper have you beaten the cooperation and you have accepted it, you’ve feared before him, said Schygulla. That, of all things, the performer of major female roles, and was even the victims of abuse of power, not strikes to the side of the victims, encounters with many of incomprehension and criticism.
Compared with the weekly newspaper “die Zeit”, in contrast, Schygulla said that it was important that the debate around sexual harassment and abuse of power is to be conducted in the film industry. Schygulla, the co-signatory to the Initiative “For A Thousand Lives. Be Human”, an Appel against populism, and Silence (2015), looks back on an impressive life’s work, which was awarded with numerous prices.