Mady Rahl
Mady Rahl (born January 3, 1915) is a German stage and film actress.
Born Edith Gertrud Meta Raschke in Neukölln, 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. In all, she played in about 90 movies, both for UFA and after the war. In later years, she also appeared on television, while at the same time pursuing her career in the theatre.
Rahl was married three times, first to Theodor Reimers, then to producer Wilhem Sperber, and finally to Werner Bürkle.
Her sister's name was Ellen, she died 1995 in Munich, her grave is at the Nordfriedhof.
Almost blind and suffering from dementia, Mady Rahl lives in a retirement home in Munich, she had a minder, his name is Thomas Speyerer.
Autographs Address:
Mady Rahl c/o Thomas Speyerer Saint-Privat-Str.9 D-81677 Munich ( München)
Select 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)
- Der Sturz (1979) (Wolfgang Kieling, Hannelore Elsner; based on a novel by Martin Walser).