SELECTION OF FILM
Two of Us “Deux” (Meneghetti) Die abhandene Welt (Margarethe von Trotta) Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (Schrader) Hannah Arendt (von Trotta)
Vision from the Life of Hilda von Bingen (von Trotta)
The Discovery of Curried Sausage (Wagner)
Zentropa (von Trier)
Voyager (Schloendorff)
M. Butterfly (Cronenberg)
The Sicilian (Chimino)
Rosa Luxemburg (von Trotta)
Lola (Fassbinder)
Marianne and Juliane (von Trotta)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
FILM + THEATER AWARDS
Best actress award, Venice Film Festival
Best actress award, Cannes Film Festival
Best actress award, Montreal World Film Festival
Two-time nominee, European Film Awards
Three-time winner in Gold, German Film Awards
Grimme Award in Gold
Three-time Best Actress Winner, Bavarian Film Awards
Best Actress, German Academy Awards
Actress of the Year, Theater Heute
Fellini Award for Outstanding Work in Cinema
JURIES
Cannes Film Festival
Tokyo Film Festival
Berline Film Festival
Moscow Film Fesitval
DIRECTORS
Margarethe von Trotta
R.W. Fassbinder
Lars von Trier
Michael Cimino
Tim Robbins
John Torturro
David Cronenberg
Cindy Sherman
Giorgio Strehler
Serge Gainsbourg
Hans Steinbichler
Andreas Kleinert
Ulla Wagner
Volker Schloendorf
TV
Twelve Monkeys, Syfy Channel
SELECTION OF THEATER
Danton's Death (Büchner)
The Master Builder (Ibsen)
Quartett (Mueller)
The Cherry Orchard (Mann)
Because He Can (Kopit)
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Othello
Selection of CONCERTS
Pierrot Lunaire (Schoenberg)
Gurre Lieder (Schoenberg)
Cassandra (Jarrell)
Peter und der Wolf (Prokofiev)
Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher (Honegger)
Im wunderschoenen Monat Mai (Deleeuw/Schubert/Schumann)
Ein Sommernachtstraum (Mendelssohn)
performed with
Berlin Philharmonic
Vienna Philharmonic
Cleveland Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Schoenberg Ensemble
Saint Louis Symphony
Philharmonia Orchestra London
performed in
Paris, London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, Salzbourg, Los Angeles, New York
CONDUCTORS
Claudio Abbado
Reinbert DeLeeuw
Esa Pekka Salonen
David Robertson
Marc Albrecht
Joseph Pons
X-PATSYS PERFORMANCES
New York (Highline Ballroom, Bowery Ballroom, Le Poisson Rouge), Miami, Berlin, Munich, Paris
MUSIC AWARDS
Echo Klassik
Edison
Grammy Nomination
LANGUAGES
German
English
French
Barbara Sukowa is one of the most internationally well known German actresses. She has received numerous awards for her work in film and on stage.
Barbara Sukowa is one of the most internationally well known German actresses. She has received numberSukowa started as a stage actress in major German Theaters. Her roles included Marion in Büchner's Danton's Death and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other Shakespeare roles in Europe were Rosalind in As You Like It and Desdemona in Othello. Sukowa also performed in Ibsen's The Master Builder. The Marquise de Merteuil in Heiner Mueller’s Quartett in Salzburg Festival. Amsterdam , Stockholm , Hamburg (2010). In the US, she has worked in productions of The Cherry Orchard and in Arthur Kopit’s Because He Can.
Her break through in cinema came with her portrayal of Mieze in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), which earned her the Best Young Actress Award in Germany. Her performance of the title role in Fassbinder’s Lola earned her a German Film Awards (Gold) award. Her performance in Margarethe von Trotta’s Die bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Juliane, 1981) earned her a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival. She received “Best Actress Award“ honours at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival for her work in von Trotta's Rosa Luxemburg. In 2008 she received Best actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her role in Ulla Wagner's The Invention of Curried Sausage. She is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Bavarian Film Award for her roles in the Name of Innocence, Vision from the life of Hildegard von Bingen and Hannah Arendt.
Sukowa has also developed a further career as a classical music narrator and singer. She has performed the speaker's role in Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire, first with the Schoenberg Ensemble under Reinbert de Leeuw. Other performances have been with ensembles in Paris, London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, Salzburg, Los Angeles, and New York City with conductors Marc Albrect, Esa Pekka Salonen, and David Robertson. She has performed the Speaker's role in Schönberg's Gurrelieder with the Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado, and the Los Angeles Philharmonics under Esa –Pekka Salonen, and is the Speaker on the recording with Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic. She narrated Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf both in concert and on the recording, as well as a recording of Mendelssohn’s music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has performed in Arthur Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. She performed the speaking role in the US premiere of Michael Jarrell's Cassandre in March 2006 at Carnegie Hall the New York City with musicians from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. At Carnegie Hall she sang the US premiere of “In The Wonderful Month of May” an adaptation of Schubert and Schumann Lieder by Reinbert Deleeuw and the Schoenberg Ensemble. The recording by Winter&Winter received an Echo Klassik, an Edison Award and a Grammy Nomination.
Sukowa is also the front singer of the Band the X-Patsys , which she founded with visual artists Jon Kessler and Robert Longo. Their recently released CD “Devouring Time" was named a "Best New Release" in Germany.