Biography for
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Date of Birth

17 May 1909, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death

30 July 1996, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany

Birth Name

Magdalena Schneider

Mini Biography

Magda Schneider was born on 17 May 1909 in Augsburg, Germany and a singer, stage and film actress. After her graduation at a monastery school, she studied stenography and office management at a business school, but also attended ballet lessons and art courses at the Augsburg School of Music. Six months later, she gave her stage debut as soubrette at the Gärtnerplatz- Theater in Munich and was discovered by Ernst Marischka, who offered her a role at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. After her film debut Boycott (1930), she was type casted as the simple girl, dreaming of a happy life in movies such as Two in a Car (1932) or Ein Mädel wirbelt durch die Welt (1934). In 1933, she got to know Wolf Albach-Retty, whom she married four years later. Their children Rosemarie (aka Romy Schneider) and Wolf-Dieter were born in 1938 and 1941, but they divorced in 1945. After World War II, she appeared on stage and screen again, but was better known as ambitious mother, who urged on the career of her daughter Romy. In the 1950s, she played her mother or aunt in several movies such as Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (1953) or Sissi (1955). In the last years of her life, she had to bear the death of her grandson David in 1981 and her daughter Romy in 1982. She died on 30 July 1996 in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

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Spouse

Horst Fehlhaber	(1982 - 30 July 1996) (her death)
Hans Herbert Blatzheim	(1953 - 1968) (his death)
Wolf Albach-Retty	(11 May 1937 - September 1949) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia

Mother of Romy Schneider

Grandmother of Sarah Biasini.

Played her real life daughter Romy Schneider's character's mother in six movies: Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (1953), Sissi (1955), Sissi: The Young Empress (1956), The Girl and the Legend (1957), Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) and Die Halbzarte (1959).

Born to Xaverius Schneider, a plumber, and his wife Maria Meier-Hörmann.

Like several other actors, she once visited Adolf Hitler at his mountain residence Berghof (1941).

Is interred in the Bergfriedhof, a cemetery in Berchtesgaden.

Personal Quotes

On her daughter Romy Schneider's death: "Was um Himmels willen ist natürlich am Tod einer schönen jungen Frau von 43 Jahren?" ("What in heaven's name is natural about the death of beautiful young woman of 43?")