Marianne Schönauer
Marianne Schönauer | |
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Born | 31 May 1920 Vienna, Austria |
Died | 9 July 1997 (aged 77) Vienna, Austria |
Other names | Marianne Schifferes |
Occupation(s) | Actress singer |
Years active | 1947 – 1997 (film) |
Marianne Schönauer (1920–1997) was an Austrian stage, television and film actress. During her career she made over fifty appearances in film and television series and also enjoyed success as a singer.
She was born in Vienna as Marianne Schifferes to a Jewish father, Carl Schifferes.
Schönauer emerged as a star of Austrian cinema in the years following the Second World War in films such as G.W. Pabst's The Trial (1948).<ref>Rentschler p/200</
"Mandy" married on July 23, 1945 Gustav Manker (1913–1988; divorced in 1956) and afterwards a Romanian singer so he can stay in Austria. She had a relationship with Ernst Kubista (1910 in Glogegnitz – 2002 in Vienna). She has the twin daughters "Nani" Marianne Schoenauer (same name) who lived in England and "Feli" Felicitas, who is a cardiologist in Vienna.
Selected filmography
[edit]- The Immortal Face (1947)
- On Resonant Shores (1948)
- The Trial (1948)
- Eroica (1949)
- Wedding with Erika (1950)
- Maria Theresa (1951)
- 1. April 2000 (1952)
- Monks, Girls and Hungarian Soldiers (1952)
- The Poacher (1953)
- The Last Reserves (1953)
- A Night in Venice (1953)
- Bel Ami (1955)
- Don Juan (1955)
- My Daughter Patricia (1959)
- Dance with Me Into the Morning (1962)
- The Black Cobra (1963)
- I Learned It from Father (1964)
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Rentschler, Eric. The Films of G.W. Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 1990.
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