Márta Rafael

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Márta Rafael (born February 26, 1926 in Budapest ; † September 7, 2017 in Woltersdorf ) was an actress, singer and television editor in the GDR. She played in Hungarian films before she was engaged in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast from 1960 . She sang operas, operettas, folk songs and chansons on the radio and television of the GDR and organized the series "To Guest with Márta Rafael". Until 1989 she often appeared on GDR television. She was married to the journalist Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (1918–2001) for around 40 years .

Rafael caused a special stir to the detriment of her husband in July 1983 with a shoplifting in West Berlin . A shop detective had stopped her there when she was leaving a department store with stolen women's stockings worth 16.40 DM . The incident shook the credibility of her husband, who consistently glorified the Berlin Wall as the "chief commentator" on GDR television and also demonized West Berlin. The West Berlin media took Rafael's act as an opportunity to report in detail about the couple's exit privilege and the alcohol excesses that Schnitzler made possible in West Berlin bars and his shopping tours in the KaDeWe consumer temple .

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  1. Márta Rafael died . In: Junge Welt , September 21, 2017.
  2. Ernst Elitz : When the Black Canal was full. . In: Die Welt , October 30, 2014.
  3. Lucia Jay von Seldeneck: 111 places in Berlin that tell a story . Emons, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-95451-039-9 , p. 96.