Maria Schrader
Director, Writer, Actress
Maria Schrader
Director, Writer, Actress
German director, actor and screenwriter Maria Schrader opens MediaTech Hub Conference 2025. In 1999, she was honoured with the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Aimée & Jaguar, a film which opened the Berlinale and was nominated for a Golden Globe. She has won the German Film Award for Best Actress three times. As a director, she celebrated great success with Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016), which received the Audience Award at the European Film Awards, and the series Unorthodox (2020), for which Schrader was the first German director to win a Primetime Emmy. Her film I’m You’re Man celebrated its world premiere in Competition at the 2021 Berlinale and was awarded a Silver Bear and four German Film Awards afterwards. Her most recent feature film, She Said with Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan was honoured as best film of the year by the American Film Institute and the New York Film Critics Online in 2022