page_title: Jeanette Schmid
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Jeanette Schmid / Life
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Dům čp. 143, Volary, ulice 5. května. Rodný dům Rudolfa Schmida (1924-2005), známého po změně pohlaví pod uměleckým jménem Jeanette Baroness Lips von Lipstrill.
context_page_description: Jeanette Schmid was a professional transgender whistler.
context_section_description: Born Rudolf Schmid in a German family in Volary, Czechoslovakia, Schmid began to dress in feminine clothing at a young age and loved singing and dancing. Schmid did not fit in with the Nazi ideal of the Aryan male but enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1941 and was posted to Udine, Italy until sent home due to typhoid fever.
  At the end of the war, Schmid fled to Munich where she began a career as a female impersonator. She rapidly gained fame for her talent, bawdy material, and slinky outfits.  The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife Queen Soraya, saw Schmid perform in Hamburg and invited her to Tehran, but Schmid's material and dress were considered inappropriate by many in Iran, and she was forced to devise a new routine. She instead whistled a Strauss polka and Offenbach's "Barcarole" for the Shah and his court.
  Following her Iran performance, Schmid toured the world as a cross-dressing whistler, performing on stage with acts like Frank Sinatra, Édith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich while living in Cairo. In 1964, Schmid underwent sex reassignment surgery and changed her name to Jeanette. Schmid moved to Vienna, the world capital of whistling, to continue her whistling career.
  Schmid continued to tour the world under the stage name Baroness Lips von Lipstrill, including a successful stint on Broadway.  She was awarded the Austrian Decoration of Merit in Gold in 2004.
  Schmid died in Vienna in 2005.
caption: Birthplace of Rudolf/Jeanette Schmid
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