Romy Schneider. Wien – Berlin – Paris
Daugther
Romy Schneider, who was born on September 23, 1938 as the daughter of Magda Schneider and Wolf Albach-Retty, actors who were popular in the 1930s and 1940s, seemed predestined to her own acting career. Before turning 15, in 1953, she played the daughter of a dressmaker who was a single parent (performed by her mother), in her first film WENN DER WEISSE FLIEDER WIEDER BLÜHT, directed by Hans Deppe. She was so fresh and authentic in this small role that she immediately received further offers. Magda Schneider and her second husband Hans Herbert Blatzheim, a restaurateur from Cologne, controlled the professional development of the young Romy Schneider, because many producers wanted to sign a contract with the unselfconscious, spirited actress. Romy Schneider became a cult figure in the Federal Republic of Germany and in large segments of Europe as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the SISSI trilogy (1955, 1956 and 1957) by the Viennese director Ernst Marischka. Nevertheless, she soon attempted to free herself from this stereotypic definition of her in the role of a monarch. She finally succeeded in the summer of 1958 after she became acquainted with Alain Delon while filming CHRISTINE. Soon afterward she turned her back on the German film industry and moved to Paris. >> New Beginnings
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The exhibition
Photo: M. Stefanowski
Opening of the Berlinale,
1955
MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM,
1958
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