Ulrike Schwab is an actress and until 2007 worked as a permanent ensemble member for 12 years at German-speaking theatres with S. Kimmig, J. Kresnik, T. Bischoff, among others. (Thalia Theater HH, Schauspiel Graz, Schauspiel HH, Schauspiel Köln).   
She regularly collaborates in the field of radio plays, features and audio books with WDR, DLF & Arte, Bavarian Radio and SWR; in the field of acting she regularly appears in front of the camera for film and TV.
 In 2008, the film Lostage received a Special Mention at the Berlinale 08 from the jury Dialogue en Perspective (leading role); it was shown at international festivals such as Locarno, Oberhausen, Kolkata; with the Cologne filmmaker Benjamin Moritz Gronau, she is currently working (HR) on a new feature film "Versuch einer Wieder-annäherung".
She can be heard as a narrator in various radio play projects; the radio play "Mutterseelenallein" by M. Kapohl was nominated for the Juliane Bartel Media Prize in 2014.