10 Facts About Hanna Schygulla

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Hanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Hanna Schygulla first worked for Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German Cinema.

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Hanna Schygulla was born in Konigshutte to German parents Antonie and Joseph Hanna Schygulla.

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Much later, in the 1960s, Hanna Schygulla studied Romance languages and German studies, while taking acting lessons in Munich during her spare time.

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Hanna Schygulla starred alongside Bruno Ganz in Volker Schlondorff's Circle of Deceit, and with Isabelle Huppert in Jean-Luc Godard's Passion.

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Hanna Schygulla was a member of the jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival in 1987.

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Hanna Schygulla appeared in the Bela Tarr film Werckmeister Harmonies, and in VB51, a performance by the artist Vanessa Beecroft.

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Hanna Schygulla appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's film Fassbinder's Women.

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Hanna Schygulla acted in the Alexander Sokurov film Faust and in the French drama film The Prayer by Cedric Kahn.

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Hanna Schygulla lived in Paris from 1981 to 2014, when she left for Berlin.