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 | 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, Karl Schifferes. He emigrated to France following the Anchluss, but was arrested and died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
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).[1] She married the art director Gustav Manker whom she divorced in 1956. She had 2 twin daughters, Marianne and Felicitas Schönauer born in Vienna 1958.
Selected filmography[]
- (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[]
- ^ Rentschler p/200
Bibliography[]
- 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.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 1997 deaths
- Austrian television actresses
- Austrian stage actresses
- Austrian film actresses
- Austrian female singers
- Austrian Jews
- Musicians from Vienna
- Actresses from Vienna
- 20th-century Austrian actresses
- 20th-century Austrian singers
- 20th-century women singers
- Austrian actor stubs