| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2014 |
|
Jördis Triebel |
Lagerfeuer |
| 2013 |
|
Barbara Sukowa |
Hannah Arendt |
| 2012 |
|
Alina Levshin |
Combat Girls |
| 2011 |
|
Sophie Rois |
Three |
| 2010 |
|
Sibel Kekilli |
When We Leave |
| 2009 |
|
Ursula Werner |
Cloud 9 |
| 2008 |
|
Nina Hoss |
Yella |
| 2007 |
|
Monica Bleibtreu |
Four Minutes |
| 2006 |
|
Sandra Hüller |
Requiem |
| 2005 |
|
Julia Jentsch |
Sophie Scholl \u2013 The Final Days |
| 2004 |
|
Sibel Kekilli |
Head-On |
| 2003 |
|
Hannelore Elsner |
Mein letzter Film |
| 2002 |
|
Martina Gedeck |
Mostly Martha |
| 2001 |
|
Katrin Saß |
Heidi M. |
| 2000 |
|
Hannelore Elsner |
No Place to Go |
| 1999 |
|
Maria Schrader |
Aimée & Jaguar, The Giraffe |
| 1999 |
|
Juliane Köhler |
Aimée & Jaguar |
| 1998 |
|
Katja Riemann |
The Pharmacist, Bandits |
| 1997 |
|
Sylvie Testud |
Beyond Silence |
| 1996 |
|
Katja Riemann |
Talk of the Town, Over My Dead Body |
| 1995 |
|
Maria Schrader |
Einer meiner ältesten Freunde, Nobody Loves Me, Burning Life |
| 1994 |
|
Christiane Hörbiger |
Back to Square One, A Touch of Spice |
| 1993 |
|
Renate Krößner |
North Curve |
| 1993 |
|
Barbara Auer |
My Daughter is Mine |
| 1992 |
|
Ann-Gisel Glass |
Silent Shadows |
| 1991 |
|
Isabelle Huppert |
Malina |
| 1990 |
|
Lena Stolze |
The Nasty Girl |
| 1989 |
|
Zuhal Olcay |
Farewell to False Paradise |
| 1989 |
|
Heidemarie Hatheyer |
Martha Jellneck |
| 1988 |
|
Marianne Sägebrecht |
Bagdad Café |
| 1988 |
|
Adriana Altaras |
The Microscope |
| 1987 |
|
Özay Fecht |
40 Sq. Meters of Germany |
| 1987 |
|
Katharina Thalbach |
Paradise |
| 1986 |
|
Barbara Sukowa |
Rosa Luxemburg |
| 1986 |
|
Edith Clever |
Die Nacht |
| 1985 |
|
Ursela Monn |
Girl in a Boot |
| 1984 |
|
Nina Hoger |
Flucht nach vorn |
| 1984 |
|
Marie Colbin |
No Time For Tears - The Bachmeier Case |
| 1983 |
|
Nastassja Kinski |
Spring Symphony |
| 1983 |
|
Lena Stolze |
Die Weiße Rose, Five Last Days |
| 1982 |
|
Barbara Sukowa |
Lola, Marianne and Juliane |
| 1981 |
|
Ingrid Caven |
Looping |
| 1980 |
|
Jutta Lampe |
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness |
| 1980 |
|
Adelheid Arndt |
1+1=3 |
| 1980 |
|
Krista Stadler |
Lena Rais |
| 1979 |
|
Hanna Schygulla |
The Marriage of Maria Braun |
| 1978 |
|
Tina Engel |
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages |
| 1977 |
|
Romy Schneider |
Group Portrait with a Lady |
| 1976 |
|
Edith Clever |
The Marquise of O |
| 1976 |
|
Angela Winkler |
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum |
| 1975 |
|
Lina Carstens |
Lina Braake |
| 1975 |
|
Grischa Huber |
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand |
| 1974 |
|
Brigitte Mira |
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul |
| 1973 |
|
Margit Carstensen |
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant |
| 1972 |
|
Irm Hermann |
The Merchant of Four Seasons |
| 1971 |
|
Hanna Schygulla |
Whity, Mathias Kneissl |
| 1968 |
|
Thekla Carola Wied |
Trace of a Girl |
| 1967 |
|
Alexandra Kluge |
Yesterday Girl |
| 1966 |
|
Sabine Sinjen |
It |
| 1965 |
|
Jana Brejchová |
The House in Karp Lane |
| 1964 |
|
Mira Stupica |
Destination Death |
| 1963 |
|
Elisabeth Bergner |
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds |
| 1962 |
|
Vera Tschechowa |
The Bread of Those Early Years |
| 1961 |
|
Hilde Krahl |
A Glass of Water |
| 1959 |
|
Nadja Tiller |
The Girl Rosemarie |
