Mady Rahl

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

Life

Theater, Film and Television

Rahl, daughter of Gürtlermeisters concluded after the completion of a girls' high school from a theater training with dance classes and received her first stage commitment in 1935 to the Municipal Theater in Leipzig, which should take about 20 months. There she worked with director Detlef Sierk. After test shots she got the first minor roles in the feature films The mysterious Mr. X with Ralph Arthur Roberts and Hermann Thimig as well as in alleyways to paradise with Hans Moser in the lead role.

But only through the production Truxa ( Director: Hans H. Zerlett ) of 1937, she also became known to a wider audience. Twice in two four-poster bed, followed Pastures new, A night in May and Hello Janine ( as a partner of Marika Rokk and Johannes Heesters ). Overall, Mady Rahl worked in more than 90 films.

Even after the Second World War, she turned on and also appeared in Munich at the little comedy at the Max II. Another sphere gave her work in television. Rahl appeared in series such as Crime Scene, The Crimes of the Hart, The Commissioner, Police 110, and in The Happy Family ( with Maria Schell and Siegfried Rauch ) and The Wicherts -next-door.

Synchronization

Mady Rahl was at times also worked as a voice actor. So she borrowed in the animated series Nils Holgersson of the wild goose Akka, in the comedy One, Two, Three and Arlene Francis in the animated film Princess Mononoke the Moro her voice. She also spoke the Duchess in the children's series Fraggle Rock in the later episodes the voice of Ma Gorg and in the animated show Alice in Wonderland.

She was also the German dubbing voice of Lucille Ball

Private life

Mady Rahl was married three times; of each of their men, including film producer William Sperber, she was divorced. Rahl was also a long time active as a hobby painter of Impressionist paintings and watercolors. Her works have been shown at various exhibitions. Mady Rahl, who was last nearly blind and suffered from dementia, died on August 29, 2009 in a hospital in Munich- Bogenhausen.

She was buried on 6 October 2009 at the Munich North Cemetery. The grave speech was delivered by her longtime friend, the actor Christian Wolff, was a friend of his first wife Corny Collins Mady Rahl long time.

Your artistic estate to the comprehensive photo archives and many of their self-painted pictures belong is managed by her former manager Thomas Speyer. Some personal items are in the Potsdam Film Museum in Potsdam- Babelsberg in an exhibition on the UFA.

Filmography (selection)

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