A German actress and singer — one of the defining faces of New German Cinema — Barbara Sukowa (b. 1950) first gained prominence through her collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz, Lola) and Margarethe von Trotta. She earned two major acting awards for her work in films by the latter: Marianne & Juliane (1981), for which she won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, and Rosa Luxemburg (1986), for which she received the Best Actress award at Cannes. Now recognized as one of the most remarkable performers in European cinema, having worked with directors such as Lars von Trier and David Cronenberg, we pay tribute to her by revisiting her work on the big screen in Lola (1981), M. Butterfly (Cronenberg, 1993), and Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta, 2012).