My career has started quite late because I hadn't made up my mind to become and actress. As a child I was dreaming of being a dancer. I was this girl in my class that was so pretty and danced. I was brought up after the war and TV hadn't yet arrived so it was still radio so I dreamed about becoming a singer at times especially when I was all alone listening to these voices coming out of the radio. Some of them were already from abroad, American and Latin-American. I was just jumping on the voices. This was infantile dreams. Hanna Schygulla being interviewed in Taormina Then I studied philology because I was grateful to my teachers. They were always encouraging me saying "We know that you will become something special". I needed that kind of confirmation because it was not in the tradition of my family to become something special - they were working class people. Thinking of my teachers I thought it would be good to become a teacher because you can be important to c...