Marianne Schönauer

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Marianne Schönauer (actually Schifferes) (born May 31, 1920 in Vienna ; † July 9, 1997 there ) was an Austrian actress .

Live and act

Marianne Schönauer studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and trained as a singer. During her studies she was employed by Max Reinhardt and his Faust production at the Salzburg Festival . After graduating, she was engaged as an actress in Mährisch-Ostrau . During the war, Marianne Schönauer, being a “ half-Jew ”, was banned from working (which is why she was unable to fulfill an already fixed obligation to the German Volkstheater). She got by with various odd jobs and changed her name several times in order not to be discovered by the Gestapo. Her Jewish father Karl Schifferes (1894–1942), a cellist in the RAVAG Orchestra, emigrated to France and later died in Auschwitz .

One of the most important stations of her acting career was (from 1945) the Vienna Volkstheater , where she mainly worked with the director Günther Haenel (in Henrik Ibsen's " Baumeister Solness " she played the leading female role alongside Albert Bassermann ). The Raimundtheater (1949), the Landestheater Salzburg (1950) and the Stadttheater in Vienna (1951) were further stations until she finally came to the Theater in der Josefstadt , where she was part of the ensemble (with interruptions) until 1987. During the summer months she also performed at the Mörbisch Seespiele , for example . During the 1950s and 1960s, Marianne Schönauer was also known as a pop singer.

From 1946 Marianne Schönauer was regularly in front of the camera. She has worked in many movies alongside well-known actors such as Hans Moser , OW Fischer , Hans Holt and Johannes Heesters and in various television productions. In 1987 she ended her theater career and devoted herself particularly to training the next generation, organized literature readings and increasingly worked as a television actress.

Schönauer was married to the set designer and director Gustav Manker in his first marriage . She died unexpectedly in 1997 in the middle of filming. Her grave is on the Hernalser Friedhof in Vienna (group 63, row 7, number 13).

In 2000, Marianne-Schönauer-Gasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after her.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Morgenstern: Jewish biographical lexicon. A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800 . Münster 2009, p. 741
  2. ^ Paulus Manker: The theater man Gustav Manker. Search for clues. Brandstätter, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85033-335-1
personal data
SURNAME Schönauer, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schifferes, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1997
Place of death Vienna