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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.

Marianne Schönauer
Born	31 May 1920 Vienna, Austria
Died	9 July 1997 (aged 77) Vienna, Austria
Other names	Marianne Schifferes
Occupation	Actress singer
Years active	1947 – 1997 (film)

She was born in Vienna as Marianne Schifferes to a Jewish father, Karl Schifferes. He fled 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. She had 2 twin daughters, Marianne and Felicitas Schönauer born in Vienna 1958.

Selected filmography

• The Immortal Face (1947)
• On Resonant Shores (1948)
• The Trial (1948)
• Eroica (1949)
• Wedding with Erika (1950)
• Maria Theresa (1951)
• 1. April 2000 (1952)
• Monks, Girls and Hungarian Soldiers (1952)
• The Poacher (1953)
• The Last Reserves (1953)
• A Night in Venice (1953)
• Bel Ami (1955)
• Don Juan (1955)
• My Daughter Patricia (1959)
• Dance with Me Into the Morning (1962)
• 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 IMDb

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