Beautiful, smoky-voiced platinum blonde Mady Rahl was the 'Sportsmädel' of the German cinema in the 1930's and 40's. During the war years, she was touted in Nazi propaganda as an ideal of Germanic femininity. Her association with members of the regime, including the ever roving-eyed 'Joseph Goebbels . By the mid-1990's, the thrice-married actress had wound down her performing career to concentrate on her other vocation as a successful painter and exhibitor of water colours. Almost blind and afflicted by dementia, Mady Rahl died in August 2009 at the respectable age of 94.
Made her stage debut in Leipzig under the direction of Douglas Sirk in 1935.
Being the last female UFA star alive, she lived in a retirement home in Munich. She was almost blind and suffered from dementia.
After discovering her talent as painter, her works were shown in exhibitions.
She continued her career after the war and she impersonated many roles, especially in the 50s.
Her engagements in front of the camera took off in the 60s.
She acted again in some feature movies, from the 70s she normally worked for TV productions.
Her grave is in the Nordfriedhof Cemetery in Munich (plot 178-U-66), where her sister Ellen had been buried in 1995.
She appeared in approximately 90 movies, several of them for UFA. In later years, she appeared frequently on television, while also pursuing her career in the theatre.
She was also the German voice of many cartoon characters and of Lucille Ball.
Rahls first marriage was to Theodor Reimers, her second was to producer Wilhem Sperber, and her third was to Werner Brkle.
Late in life she painted in the Impressionist style.
She already came in contact with the theater during her school time and got acting lessons from the famous Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Lessons in singing and dance rounded off her education.
With her role in the circus drama Truxa Rahl became known to a wider audience.
In 2004, aged 90, she made a short-lived return to the stage.
During the 1960s she joined the Munich Comedy Theatre, and began a prolific career as a television actress, appearing in various popular crime serials.
