Marianne Schönauer

Marianne Schönauer (1920–1997) was an Austrian stage, television and film actress. During her career she made over fifty appearances in film and television series and also enjoyed success as a singer.

She was born in Vienna as Marianne Schifferes to a Jewish father, Karl Schifferes. He emigrated to France following the Anchluss, but was arrested and died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.

Schönauer emerged as a star of Austrian cinema in the years following the Second World War in films such as G.W. Pabst's The Trial (1948).^[1] She married the art director Gustav Manker whom she divorced in 1956.

Selected filmography

• The Trial (1948)
• Eroica (1949)
• 1. April 2000 (1952)
• A Night in Venice (1953)
• Bel Ami (1955)
• Don Juan (1955)
• My Daughter Patricia (1959)
• The Black Cobra (1963)
• I Learned It from Father (1964)

References

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Rentschler, Eric. The Films of G.W. Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 1990.

External links

• Marianne Schönauer at the Internet Movie Database