# Sandra Hüller To Star As Celebrated Late Male German Artist Wolfgang Herrndorf’s In Maria Schrader’s ‘Work And Structure’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/sandra-huller-to-star-as-celebrated-late-male-german-artist-wolfgang-herrndorfs-in-maria-schraders-work-and-structure/
- Published: 2026-09-03T10:06:28+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-03T10:17:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/09/sandra-huller-male-artist-wolfgang-herrndorf-schrader-1237066632/
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Europe, Film, Music, World

## Key points

- Sandra Hüller to play writer Wolfgang Herrndorf in Maria Schrader's new film
- Adapts Herrndorf's acclaimed memoir written after his terminal cancer diagnosis
- Production starts 2027, release planned in Germany, France, Italy in 2028

## Summary

Sandra Hüller has been cast as the late German writer and artist Wolfgang Herrndorf in "Work and Structure" (Arbeit und Struktur), a feature film directed by Maria Schrader. The project unites two prominent figures in German cinema and adapts Herrndorf's acclaimed autobiographical work for the screen, marking a significant literary adaptation for the German film industry.

Herrndorf began writing the source material after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour in 2010, and the book was published posthumously in 2013, going on to become a landmark of contemporary German literature. Schrader is adapting the text with Jan Schomburg, with production due to start in early 2027; the film is being made by Komplizen Film, Studiocanal, Haut et Court and ZDF, with Studiocanal handling world sales and releasing it in Germany, France and Italy in 2028. Hüller, known for "Anatomy of a Fall" and "The Zone of Interest", and Schrader, whose credits include "I'm Your Man" and "Unorthodox", both described the project as a deeply personal and challenging undertaking.

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