Magda Schneider

Magda Schneider
Magdalena Maria Schneider (17 May 1909 – 30 July 1996) was a German actress and singer. She was the mother of the actress Romy Schneider.
Biography
Magdalena Maria Schneider was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, the daughter of a plumber. She attended a Catholic girls' school and a commercial college; thereafter she worked as a stenographer in a grain store. At the same time, Schneider studied singing at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg and ballet at the municipal theater. She made her stage debut at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. Schneider drew the attention of the Austrian director Ernst Marischka who called her to the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, and in 1930 gave Schneider her first film role.
While filming in 1933, Schneider met her future husband, the Austrian actor Wolf Albach-Retty. The couple married in 1937 and had two children: Rosemarie Magdalena, called Romy, and Wolf-Dieter, later a surgeon, born in 1941. During World War II, Schneider lived in the Bavarian Alps near Hitler's retreat in the Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden. Schneider was a guest of Hitler's, who declared that she was his favorite actress. Later she and Albach-Retty separated and the marriage ended in divorce in 1945.
After the war, offers for movies initially were few. Schneider again began filming in 1948 and promoted her daughter's career with the joint appearance in the film When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953) directed by Hans Deppe, a typical 1950s Heimatfilm which was the film debut of her daughter, 14-year-old Romy Schneider. In the same year Magda Schneider married the Cologne restaurant owner .
Magda Schneider arranged further appearances with her daughter in several movies such as Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Victoria in Dover, 1954), the films of the Sissi trilogy based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with Romy Schneider starring in the title role and Magda Schneider playing the role of her mother Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, and in Die Halbzarte (Eva, 1958). Magda Schneider's role in the 1933 film Liebelei (1933) was also played by her daughter, Romy Schneider, in the remake Christine (1958).
Schneider died in 1996 at her house in Schönau near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.
Selected filmography
Boycott (1930) – Zofe
Wrong Number, Miss (1932) – Inge Becker – Telefonistin
A Bit of Love (1932) – Anny, seine Sekretärin
Two in a Car (1932) – Lisa Krüger
The Song of Night (1932) – Mathilde
Sehnsucht 202 (1932) – Magda
Tell Me Tonight (1932) – Mathilde Pategg
The Testament of Cornelius Gulden (1932) – Flox Winter
Overnight Sensation (1932) – Edith
La chanson d'une nuit (1933) – Mathilde
Marion, That's Not Nice (1933) – Marion – Satorius Tochter
Liebelei (1933) – Christine Weyring – seine Tochter
A Love Story (1933) – Christine Weyring
Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen (1933) – Lili Schrader
Going Gay (1933) – Grete A Viennese Girl
Bon Voyage (1933) – Monika Brink
Ich kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich (1934) – Gloria Claassen
Ein Mädel wirbelt durch die Welt (1934) – Leonore 'Lenox' Brehmer
Tales from the Vienna Woods (1934) – Milly Scheffers
Miss Liselott (1934) – Liselotte Fischer
Die Katz' im Sack (1935) – Irene Ferenczy
Winter Night's Dream (1935) – Hilde Müller
Eva, the Factory Girl (1935) – Eva
Forget Me Not (1935) – Liselotte Heßfeld – seine Sekretärin
Die lustigen Weiber (1936) – Viola Evans
Rendezvous in Wien (1936) – Gusti Aigner
The Fairy Doll (1936) – Komtess Felizitas – ihre Nichte
Prater (1936) – Tini
Geheimnis eines alten Hauses (1936) – Mary Hofmeyer
Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering (1937) – Marie Haßler
Musik für dich (1937) – Hella
Ihr Leibhusar (1938) – Marie Toldy
Frühlingsluft (1938) – Elli Nolte
The Woman at the Crossroads (1938) – Dr.med. Hanna Weigand
Who's Kissing Madeleine? (1939) – Madeleine Pasqual
The Right to Love (1939) – Vroni Mareiter
The Girl at the Reception (1940) – Beate
Herzensfreud – Herzensleid (1940) – Toni, seine Tochter
Am Abend auf der Heide (1941) – Änne
Die heimlichen Bräute (1942) – Inge Thiele
Liebeskomödie (1943) – Christel Schönbach
Two Happy People (1943)
A Man for My Wife (1943) – Dagmar Stollberg
Eines Tages (1945) – Bettina Pahlen
Ein Mann gehört ins Haus (1948) – Loni Tannhofer
Die Sterne lügen nicht (1950) – Frau Bürgermeister Brigitte Krambach
When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953) – Therese Forster
Love Is Forever (1954) – Mrs. Vogelreuther
Victoria in Dover (1954) – Baroness Lehzen
(1955) – Therese Hübner
Sissi (1955) – Duchess Ludovika in Bayern / Vickie
Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) – Duchess Ludovika in Bayern
The Girl and the Legend (1957) – Mrs. Cantley
Von allen geliebt (1957) – Lotte Fürst
Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) – Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria
The House of Three Girls (1958) – Frau Tschöll
Eva (1959) – Mutter Dassau
Verdammt die jungen Sünder nicht (1961) – Vera Jüttner
References
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Filmography, photographs, literature
1909 births
1996 deaths
German film actresses
Actors from Augsburg
20th-century German actresses
German stage actresses
20th-century German women singers
Romy Schneider