Angela Schanelec was born in 1962. She studied Acting at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main from 1982-1984, and worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Berlin"s Schaubuehne and the Schauspielhaus in Bochum from 1984-1991. She studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin from 1990-1995, graduating with "My Sister"s Good Fortune", winner of the German Critics" Prize 1996.

Her other films include "Schoene gelbe Farbe" (1991), "Weit entfernt" (1991), "Prag, Maerz 92" (1992), "Ich bin den Sommer ueber in Berlin geblieben" (1993), "Places in Cities" ("Plaetze in Staedten", 1997/98) presented at Cannes" Un Certain Regard in 1998, "Passing Summer" ("Mein langsames Leben", 2001) presented at the Berlinale"s Forum in 2001, and "Marseille" (2004), Nachmittag (2007), and Orly (2010), which screened at the 2010 Berlinale Forum.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH