Magda Schneider
Magdalena Maria Schneider 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 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, 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. Magda Schneider's role in the 1933 film Liebelei was also played by her daughter, Romy Schneider, in the remake Christine.
Schneider died in 1996 at her house in Schönau near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.
Selected filmography
Boycott – ZofeWrong Number, Miss – Inge Becker – TelefonistinA Bit of Love – Anny, seine SekretärinTwo in a Car – Lisa KrügerThe Song of Night – MathildeSehnsucht 202 – MagdaTell Me Tonight – Mathilde PateggThe Testament of Cornelius Gulden – Flox WinterOvernight Sensation – EdithOne Night's Song – MathildeMarion, That's Not Nice – Marion – Satorius TochterLiebelei – Christine Weyring – seine TochterA Love Story – Christine WeyringKind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen – Lili SchraderGoing Gay – Grete A Viennese GirlBon Voyage – Monika BrinkIch kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich – Gloria ClaassenEin Mädel wirbelt durch die Welt – Leonore 'Lenox' BrehmerTales from the [Vienna Woods (1934 film)|Tales from the Vienna Woods] – Milly ScheffersMiss Liselott – Liselotte FischerDie Katz' im Sack – Irene FerenczyWinter Night's Dream – Hilde MüllerEva, the Factory Girl – EvaForget Me Not – Liselotte Heßfeld – seine SekretärinDie lustigen Weiber – Viola EvansRendezvous in Wien – Gusti AignerThe Fairy Doll – Komtess Felizitas – ihre NichtePrater – TiniGeheimnis eines alten Hauses – Mary HofmeyerWoman's Love—Woman's Suffering – Marie HaßlerMusik für dich – HellaIhr Leibhusar – Marie ToldyFrühlingsluft – Elli NolteThe Woman at the Crossroads – Dr.med. Hanna WeigandWho's Kissing Madeleine? – Madeleine PasqualThe [Right to Love (1939 film)|The Right to Love] – Vroni MareiterThe Girl at the Reception – BeateHerzensfreud – Herzensleid – Toni, seine TochterAm Abend auf der Heide – ÄnneDie heimlichen Bräute – Inge ThieleLiebeskomödie – Christel SchönbachTwo Happy People A Man for My Wife – Dagmar StollbergEines Tages – Bettina PahlenEin Mann gehört ins Haus – Loni TannhoferDie Sterne lügen nicht – Frau Bürgermeister Brigitte KrambachWhen the White Lilacs Bloom Again – Therese ForsterLove Is Forever – Mrs. VogelreutherVictoria in Dover – Baroness Lehzen – Therese HübnerSissi – Duchess Ludovika in Bayern / VickieSissi – The Young Empress – Duchess Ludovika in BayernThe Girl and the Legend – Mrs. CantleyVon allen geliebt – Lotte FürstSissi – Fateful Years of an Empress – Duchess Ludovika of BavariaThe [House of Three Girls (1958 film)|The House of Three Girls] – Frau TschöllEva – Mutter DassauVerdammt die jungen Sünder nicht – Vera Jüttner