Mady Rahl

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Mady Rahl (1949)

Mady Rahl (born January 3, 1915 in Neukölln, today Berlin-Neukölln ; † August 29, 2009 in Munich - Bogenhausen ; actually Edith Gertrud Meta Raschke ) was a German stage and film actress , voice actress and chanson singer .

Life

Theater, film and television

Rahl, daughter of the master belt maker Richard Wilhelm Emil Raschke and his wife Anna Meta Raschke geb. January , completed a theater education with dance lessons after completing a high school for girls and received her first stage engagement in 1935 at the municipal theaters in Leipzig , which should last about 20 months. There she worked under director Detlef Sierk . After test shots she got her first smaller roles in the feature films The Mysterious Mr. X with Ralph Arthur Roberts and Hermann Thimig as well as in Das Gäßchen zum Paradies with Hans Moser and Peter Bosse in the leading roles.

But it wasn't until the production of Truxa (directed by Hans H. Zerlett ) in 1937 that she became known to a larger audience as a UFA star. Twice two in a four-poster bed , To New Shores , One Night in May and Hello Janine (as a partner of Marika Rökk and Johannes Heesters ) followed. In total, Mady Rahl took part in more than 90 films, about 30 of them during the Nazi dictatorship.

Even after the Second World War , she continued shooting and also appeared in Munich on the Kleine Komödie am Max II . Working in television gave her another sphere of activity. Rahl has worked in series such as Stahlnetz , Tatort , The perpetrator on the trail , Der Kommissar , Polizeiruf 110 as well as in The Happy Family (with Maria Schell and Siegfried Rauch ) and in Die Wicherts from next door .

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Mady Rahl was also active as a voice actress at times . She lent her voice to Akka the wild goose in the cartoon series Nils Holgersson , Arlene Francis in the comedy One, Two, Three and in the cartoon Princess Mononoke the Moro her voice. She also spoke the voice of Ma Gorg in the children's series The Fraggles in later episodes and the Duchess in the cartoon Alice in Wonderland .

She was also the German dubbing voice for Lucille Ball .

Private life

Mady Rahl was married three times; she was divorced from each of her husbands, including film producer Wilhelm Sperber .

Rahl worked for a long time as a hobby painter of impressionist pictures and watercolors. Her works have been shown at various exhibitions.

Mady Rahl, who was most recently almost blind and suffered from senile dementia , died on August 29, 2009 in a hospital in Munich-Bogenhausen . Her urn was buried on October 6, 2009 in Munich's north cemetery. The funeral speech was given by her long-time friend, the actor Christian Wolff , whose first wife Corny Collins Mady Rahl had been friends for a long time.

Some personal belongings are in the Filmmuseum Potsdam in Potsdam-Babelsberg in an exhibition about the UFA .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. The beautiful woman with the smoky voice: Mady Rahl is dead at Abendblatt.de, August 29, 2009
  2. ↑ knerger.de: grave of Mady Rahl
personal data
SURNAME Rahl, Mady
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raschke, Edith Gertrud Meta (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress and chanson singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Neukölln
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 2009
Place of death München-Bogenhausen , Munich , Bavaria , Germany