Biography
Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta's extensive body of work has won awards internationally. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff. Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became "Germany's foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history". Certain aspects of von Trotta's work have been compared to Ingmar Bergman's features from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Awards & recognition
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award · 2022
- Helmut Käutner Prize · 2017
- Herbert Strate Award · 2013
- Leo-Baeck-Medal · 2012
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · 1998
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- Konrad Wolf Prize · 1993
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
Filmography15 titles
Sheer Madness
Marianne & Juliane
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Hannah Arendt
Rosa Luxemburg
Forbidden Films
Rosenstrasse
Coup de Grâce
Beware of a Holy Whore
Scene of the Crime
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Gods of the Plague
Baal