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' . 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.
Mother, with Wolf Albach-Retty , of daughter Romy Schneider.
Grandmother of Sarah Biasini and David Haubenstock.
Played her real life daughter Romy Schneider s characters mother in six movies: Wenn der weie Flieder wieder blht , Sissi , Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin , Robinson soll nicht sterben , Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin and Die Halbzarte .
Born to Xaverius Schneider, a plumber, and his wife Maria Meier-Hrmann.
Like several other actors, she once visited Adolf Hitler at his mountain residence Berghof.
Is interred in the Bergfriedhof, a cemetery in Berchtesgaden.
She made her stage debut at the Staatstheater am Grtnerplatz in Munich.
She launched her real film career with movies like "Zwei in einem Auto" (1932) and eventually "Liebelei" - one of her best movies in which she could unfold her whole acting talent.
She had her first appearance as a singer in the play "Die Fledermaus". It followed engagements in Ingolstadt, Munich and Vienna.
She and Albach-Retty separated and the marriage ended in divorce in 1945.
She attended a Catholic girls school and a commercial college, where-after 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.
After the war, offers for movies initially were few.
During World War II, Schneider lived in the Bavarian Alps near Hitlers retreat in the Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden. Schneider was a guest of Hitlers, who declared that she was his favorite actress.
In the 1960s, Magda Schneider also starred in TV series.
At the beginning of the 60s she retired from the film business.
Schneider again began filming in 1948 and promoted her daughters career with the joint appearance in the 1953 film When the White Lilacs Bloom Again directed by Hans Deppe, a typical 1950s Heimatfilm which was the film debut of 14-year-old Romy Schneider. In the same Magda Schneider married the Cologne restaurant owner Hans Herbert Blatzheim.
Magda Schneiders role in the 1933 film Liebelei was also played by her daughter, Romy Schneider, in the 1958 remake Christine.
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.
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.
Magda Schneider arranged further appearances with her daughter in several movies such as Mdchenjahre einer Knigin (Victoria in Dover), 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 the 1958 film Die Halbzarte (Eva).
