Project Hail Mary and Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Hüller is teaming up with German director Maria Schrader (I’m Your Man, She Said) on the new German drama Arbeit und Struktur (Work and Structure).
The film is an adaptation of the acclaimed autobiographical memoir by German writer and artist Wolfgang Herrndorf, who began documenting his life after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour in 2010. The memoir, published posthumously in 2013, became a literary phenomenon in Germany. The book is a detailed, and often very funny, account of his final years, filled with hope and despair, panic and joy and serenity.
Hüller will play Herrendorf in the film, her latest gender-swapped performance after her turn in Markus Schleinzer’s Rose, a role that won her the best acting honor in Berlin this year.
“Ever since my first encounter with Wolfgang Herrndorf’s work, I have been unable to let go of his writing,” Hüller said in a statement. “His texts are at once surprising, unsettling, and comforting. To encounter him as a person through this film: at a moment when his life changed abruptly, seemed on the verge of falling apart, and when he was simultaneously discovering his voice as a writer before it was tragically silenced, is both a great honour and a profound challenge for me.”
