Mady Rahl

Mady Rahl
Mady Rahl in the 1957 comedy, Ober zahlen
Born	January 3, 1915(1915-01-03) Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Died	August 29, 2009(2009-08-29) (aged 94) Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Mady Rahl (January 3, 1915 — August 29, 2009) was a German stage and film actress.

Born Edith Gertrud Meta Raschke in Neukölln, now part of Berlin, Rahl trained as an actress and dancer. In 1935 she made her stage debut in Leipzig under the direction of Douglas Sirk and started her film career in 1936 with the movie Der geheimnisvolle Mister X. With her role in the circus drama Truxa (1937) Rahl became known to a wider audience. 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.

Rahl's first marriage was to Theodor Reimers, her second was to producer Wilhem Sperber, and her third was to Werner Bürkle. Late in life she painted in the Impressionist style.

Before her death from cancer, Rahl was almost blind and suffering from dementia. She lived in a retirement home in Munich, where her caretaker was Thomas Speyerer.^[1]

Her grave is in the North Cemetery in Munich (plot 178-U-66) in Munich, where her sister Ellen had been buried in 1995.

Selected filmography

• Zweimal zwei im Himmelbett (1937) (alongside Georg Alexander, Paul Henckels and Carola Höhn)
• Zu neuen Ufern (1937) (Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel)
• Eine Nacht im Mai (1938) (Marika Rökk, Viktor Staal, Oskar Sima)
• Hallo Janine (1939) (Marika Rökk, Johannes Heesters)
• Meine Frau Teresa (1942) (Elfie Mayerhofer, Hans Söhnker)
• Sieben Briefe (1944) (O. W. Fischer)
• Augen der Liebe (1951) (Käthe Gold, René Deltgen)
• Die Dame in Schwarz (1951) (Paul Hartmann, Rudolf Prack)
• Gefangene der Liebe (1954) (Curd Jürgens, Bernhard Wicki)
• Der Jungfrauenkrieg (1957) (Gerlinde Locker, Oskar Sima, Kurt Heintel)
• Das Herz von St. Pauli (1957) (Hans Albers, Gert Fröbe)
• Ober zahlen (1957) (Hans Moser, Paul Hörbiger)
• Mit Eva fing die Sünde an (1958) (Willy Fritsch, Karin Dor)
• Der Fälscher von London (1961) (an Edgar Wallace movie)
• Hochzeit am Neusiedler See (1963) (Rolf Olsen, Gertraud Jesserer, Udo Jürgens, Rocco Granata)
• Der Hund von Blackwood Castle (1964) (another Edgar Wallace movie)
• Karl May (1974) (biopic directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
• Das Gesetz des Clans (1977) (video title Ibiza - Der Tod kommt nur bei blauem Himmel)
• Der Sturz (1979) (Wolfgang Kieling, Hannelore Elsner; based on a novel by Martin Walser)
• Die Wicherts von nebenan (TV series) (1986)
• Die glückliche Familie (TV series) (1987)
• Der Angriff (1988)
• Polizeiruf 110 (TV series): episode "Vater unser" (2004)

References

1. ^ "Ufa-Star Mady Rahl stirbt mit 94 an Krebs", Die Welt 29 August 2009 (German)

External links

• Mady Rahl at the Internet Movie Database
• Photographs of Mady Rahl

Persondata
Name	Rahl, Mady
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	1915-1-3
Place of birth	Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Date of death	August 29, 2009
Place of death	Munich, Bavaria, Germany