Cornelia Rau: Last News

‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ with Serena Joy … who’s got a darker soul. Sofie to me was the complete opposite.“Having that springboard into this character was a treat for me.”“Stateless,” which premiered on Australia’s ABC network, was inspired by the true story of Cornelia Rau who, in 2004, was unlawfully detained for 10 months in Australia.“Even though [the show] was based on true events, we kind of did our own thing with Sofie.

Netflix's latest drama series, Stateless, explores the story of four people held in an immigration detention centre in Australia.

What’s the story?The series follows main character Sofie, as an Australian citizen struggling with mental health issues who is detained after fleeing a cult.As with many Netflix series, this is based on a true story.Stateless loosely chronicles the life of Cornelia Rau, an Australian-German woman who, fifteen years ago, was unlawfully detained for a period of ten months between 2004 and 2005 as part of the Australian Government's mandatory detention program.Like her on-screen version, Rau was also a flight attendant running from a cult.In the series we meet Sofie pre-detention centre - as a career woman who gets sucked into a cult before escaping her family to join them.She lies about who she is and gets caught by the police before ending

For ten months in 2004 and 2005, an Australian citizen named Cornelia Rau was detained at the Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre and then at a place called the Baxter Detention Centre, a lonely place in the outback that is typically occupied by immigrants awaiting confirmation of their status or deportation back to their home country. Mentally ill and possibly traumatized after time in a cult, Rau was suffering a severe mental breakdown, and a reporter broke the story that an Australian national was being unlawfully detained.

Stateless.Inspired by myriad real-life stories — including the high-profile story of Cornelia Rau — about the mistreatment of asylum seekers in an Australian detention center, the trailer for the series, which is co-created by and stars Cate Blanchett, strangely presents it as about the plight of a single white woman (Yvonne Strahovski) who is mistakenly detained. It's a frustrating tactic to lure more mainstream audiences by way of the oft-reviled trojan horse storytelling method, which introduces more inclusive stories only through that of a white character.