Trivia

Was considered for the lead role in Sophie's Choice (1982) but Meryl Streep, who won an Academy Award for her performance, was cast instead.

Although she played Derek Jacobi's mother in Dead Again (1991), she is five years his junior in real life.

She and Rainer Werner Fassbinder made 23 movies together: Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Bremen Freedom (1972), The Third Generation (1979), Effi Briest (1974), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Gods of the Plague (1970), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), The Coffee Shop (1970), Katzelmacher (1969), Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Lili Marleen (1981), The Niklashausen Journey (1970), Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971), Rio das Mortes (1971), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), Whity (1971), Die Ahnfrau - Oratorium nach Franz Grillparzer (1971), Baal (1970), The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968), Mathias Kneissl (1971) and Jail Bait (1972).

No other actress won more German Film Awards than her (in 1970 for Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), in 1971 for Whity (1971), in 1975 for Wrong Move (1975) and, in 1979, for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)). Two of them (1970, 1975) were awards for the acting ensemble.

Getting a star on the new "Boulevard of the Stars" in Berlin, the German equivalent of the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. (August 2010)

As she has lived in Paris since 1981, she is fluent in French.

In the 1990s, she started singing and released her album "Hanna Schygulla chante/singt".

The only German actress to date who received an award from the National Society of Film Critics (in 2009 for her memorable supporting role in The Edge of Heaven (2007)).

Living in Paris. (2008)

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

One of Germany's most famous actresses.

She visited Argentina as guest at Mar del Plata International Film Festival. (March 2007)

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

Was awarded with the Bavarian Cross of Merit on March 24, 2011.

Received a lifetime achievement award for her acting career at the Febiofest in Prague on March 26, 2011.

She was considered for the part of Frantiska Plamínková in Milada (2017), eventually played by Dagmar Bláhová.

Schygulla won the 1979 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress for Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun, and the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the Marco Ferreri film The Story of Piera.

In the 1990s, she became a chanson singer. In Juliane Lorenz's documentary film Life, Love and Celluloid (1998), on Fassbinder and related topics, Schygulla performs several songs.

Festival tribute at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France. (1998)

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