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Mady Rahl (3 January 1915 – 29 August 2009) was a German stage and film actress.
Born Edith Gertrud Meta Raschke in
Neukölln, now part of
Berlin, Rahl trained as an actress and dancer. In 1935 she made her stage debut in
Leipzig under the direction of
Douglas Sirk and started her film career in
1936 with the movie The Mysterious Mister X. With her role in the
circus drama Truxa (
1937), Rahl became known to a wider audience. After the war, she sang with her friend
Elfreide Datzig for the USO. She ultimately appeared in approximately 90 movies, several of them for
UFA. In later years, she appeared frequently on television, while also pursuing her career in the theatre. She was also the
German voice of many cartoon characters and of
Lucille Ball.
Rahl's first marriage was to financier
Theodor Reimers, her second was to producer
Wilhem Sperber, and her third was to architect
Werner Bürkle. All three marriages ended in divorce, and she had no children.[1] Late in life she painted in the
Impressionist style.
Whilst she died of cancer, Rahl was also almost
blind and suffering from
dementia. She lived in a retirement home in
Munich, where her minder was Thomas Speyerer.[2]
Her grave is in the
Nordfriedhof Cemetery in Munich (plot 178-U-66), where her sister Ellen had been buried in 1995.