Trivia

Made her stage debut in Leipzig under the direction of Douglas Sirk in 1935.

Being the last female UFA star alive, she lived in a retirement home in Munich. She was almost blind and suffered from dementia.

After discovering her talent as painter, her works were shown in exhibitions.

She continued her career after the war and she impersonated many roles, especially in the 50's.

Her engagements in front of the camera took off in the 60's.

She acted again in some feature movies, from the 70's she normally worked for TV productions.

Her grave is in the Nordfriedhof Cemetery in Munich (plot 178-U-66), where her sister Ellen had been buried in 1995.

She 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 Theodor Reimers, her second was to producer Wilhem Sperber, and her third was to Werner Bürkle.

Late in life she painted in the Impressionist style.

She already came in contact with the theater during her school time and got acting lessons from the famous Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Lessons in singing and dance rounded off her education.

With her role in the circus drama Truxa (1937) Rahl became known to a wider audience.

In 2004, aged 90, she made a short-lived return to the stage.

During the 1960s she joined the Munich Comedy Theatre, and began a prolific career as a television actress, appearing in various popular crime serials.