Michaela May

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Michaela May, 2019
Michaela May, 2007

Michaela May (* 18th March 1952 in Munich as Gertraud Elisabeth Berta Franziska Mittermayr ) is a German actress .

Life

The Munich resident took ballet lessons from the age of seven and was already on stage in a children's ballet when she was ten. Even as Gertraud Mittermayr, she had her screen debut in 1965 in Uncle Tom's Hut under Géza von Radványi . After graduating from high school, she trained as a kindergarten teacher and attended an acting school on the side. In 1967 she appeared in a television series as a dancer. On the advice of her agency, she has appeared under the stage name Michaela May since the film Heidi (1965) . "Michaela" is a first name she freely chose, which she liked, and "May" is part of her real name.

She then worked as an actress at the theater. In 1970 she made her stage debut at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin , and in 1972 she appeared there in Sauvajon's play A handful of nettles . In Munich she played in the psychological thriller Gaslicht in the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof . With the successful television series Munich Stories (from 1974) she established herself as a busy serial actress.

She also became known through the Eurocheque card advertising that appeared around 1975 , in which her name could be found on oversized check cards in all post and bank branches.

In 1980 she married the lawyer Jack Schiffer, with whom she has two daughters - Alexandra Schiffer (* 1982) and Lilian Schiffer (* 1988) are also actresses. In 2006 Michaela May married the director Bernd Schadewald for the second time . She lives in Munich.

engagement

  • May has been a guardian angel and ambassador for cystic fibrosis patients since 1990 . In 2014 she became an honorary member of the patient organization Mukoviszidose e. V.
  • May calls for sponsorships and donations for the SOS Children's Villages on her homepage, at readings and events .
  • The actress has supported Welthungerhilfe for several years and has a. a. Visited aid organization projects in India in 2010 and Madagascar in 2016.

Filmography

Audio books

Reading in Dießen from the Christmas stories in December 2012

Radio plays

theatre

  • 1972: A handful of nettles
  • 1975: The man who doesn't dare
  • 1976: The darn seventh year
  • 1976: The children of Edouard
  • 1977: Behind the Curtain or Comrade Veygond
  • 1977: My wife does not hear a word
  • 1981: The mirror
  • 1982: a better gentleman
  • 1992: Honey moon
  • 1999-2000: gas light
  • 2002–2004: Fallen Angels
  • 2011: TouTou
  • 2016: The miracle exercise
  • 2016: Rose and her helpful spirit

Awards

Web links

Commons : Michaela May  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prominent Guardian Angels: Michaela May. Muko.info. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Charity. May's personal website. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Strong women. Janina Hartwig, Michaela May and Gesine Cukrowski support Welthungerhilfe. Welthungerhilfe . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ muenchen.de: These are the new Munich honorary citizens. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME May, Michaela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mittermayr, Gertraud Elisabeth Berta Franziska (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich