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Played her real life daughter Romy Schneider's character's mother in six movies: Lilas blancs (1953), Sissi (1955), Sissi impératrice (1956), Un petit coin de paradis (1957), Sissi face à son destin (1957) and Éva ou Les carnets secrets d'une jeune fille (1959).

Is interred in the Bergfriedhof, a cemetery in Berchtesgaden.

During World War II, Schneider lived in the Bavarian Alps near Hitler's retreat in the Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden. Schneider was a guest of Hitler's, who declared that she was his favorite actress.

Like several other actors, she once visited Adolf Hitler at his mountain residence Berghof (1941).

While filming in 1933, Schneider met her future husband, the Austrian actor Wolf Albach-Retty. The couple married in 1937 and had two children: Rosemarie Magdalena, called Romy, and Wolf-Dieter, later a surgeon, born in 1941.

Mother, with Wolf Albach-Retty, of daughter Romy Schneider.

Grandmother of Sarah Biasini and David Haubenstock.

Born to Xaverius Schneider, a plumber, and his wife Maria Meier-Hörmann.

She attended a Catholic girls' school and a commercial college, where-after she worked as a stenographer in a grain store. At the same time, Schneider studied singing at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg and ballet at the municipal theater.

Magda Schneider arranged further appearances with her daughter in several movies such as Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Victoria in Dover), the films of the Sissi trilogy based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with Romy Schneider starring in the title role and Magda Schneider playing the role of her mother Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, and in the 1958 film Die Halbzarte (Eva).

She made her stage debut at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.

She launched her real film career with movies like "Zwei in einem Auto" (1932) and eventually "Liebelei" (1933) - one of her best movies in which she could unfold her whole acting talent.

She had her first appearance as a singer in the play "Die Fledermaus". It followed engagements in Ingolstadt, Munich and Vienna.

She and Albach-Retty separated and the marriage ended in divorce in 1945.

After the war, offers for movies initially were few.

In the 1960s, Magda Schneider also starred in TV series.

At the beginning of the 60's she retired from the film business.

Schneider again began filming in 1948 and promoted her daughter's career with the joint appearance in the 1953 film When the White Lilacs Bloom Again directed by Hans Deppe, a typical 1950s Heimatfilm which was the film debut of 14-year-old Romy Schneider. In the same Magda Schneider married the Cologne restaurant owner Hans Herbert Blatzheim.

Magda Schneider's role in the 1933 film Liebelei was also played by her daughter, Romy Schneider, in the 1958 remake Christine.

Schneider drew the attention of the Austrian director Ernst Marischka who called her to the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, and in 1930 gave Schneider her first film role.