Hildegard Schroedter, born in Arnsberg on May 20, 1958, attended the Cologne drama school 'Der Keller', where she graduated in 1984. Apart from very sporadic appearances in series and television plays, she worked exclusively in theater for the next twenty years. She had engagements at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Renaissance Theater Berlin, the Berliner Volksbühne, the Theater Duisburg and the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, among others.

From the mid-2000s, Schroedter began to appear regularly in television and feature film productions. Mostly she played larger and smaller supporting roles. She played a camp commander in Hans Christoph Blumenberg's docudrama "Die Kinder auf der Flucht" (TV, 2006), secretaries in Julia von Heinz's social drama "Was am Ende zählt" ("Nothing Else Matters", 2006) and Wolfgang Becker's "Deutschland 09" (2008), and a co-defendant in "Der Vorleser" ("The Reader", 2008) with Kate Winslet. She took on roles in crime series such as "SOKO Wismar" and "Der Dicke" and appeared in some feature-length episodes of the "Tatort" series as well as in TV films such as the horror thriller "Gonger" (2008).

Hildegard Schroedter played a leading role in the award-winning feature film "Suicide Club" (2010), about five people who come together on a roof high above the city to jump to their deaths. She had small but impressive feature film roles as a landlady in Doris Dörrie's "Glück" ("Bliss", 2011) and in the ensembles of "Die Bücherdiebin" ("The Book Thief", DE US 2014), "Dora oder die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern" ("Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents", 2015), "Wir sind die Flut" ("We Are the Tide", 2016) and "Schubert in Love" (2016).

In "Das kalte Herz" ("Heart of Stone", 2016) she was the pub owner. She was seen in Jan-Ole Gerster's "Lara" (2019), in the female friendship story "Stillstehen" (DE/IT 2019) and in Maria Schrader's award-winning streaming series "Unorthodox" (2020). In between, she also returned to the theater, for example in 2012/13 and 2014 for productions at the Hamburg Kammerspiele and in 2018 for a co-starring role in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Mainly, Hildegard Schroedter, whose filmography includes over 100 titles, has appeared in numerous TV productions. In "Der Usedom-Krimi: Trugspur" (2017) she played a homeless woman, in the "Polizeiruf 110" episode "In Flammen" (2018) the victim of an attack who recognizes the perpetrator in a politician after years and seeks revenge. In the "Tatort" episode "Wie alle anderen auch" (2021), she had a key role as the cash-strapped manager of a homeless shelter.

Schroedter played a leading role in the children's film "Mission Ulja Funk" (2021) as the grandmother of the young main character.