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, Carl Schifferes.

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).

Family
Her father Carl "Karl" Schifferes (1894-1942) was a son of Leopold (1846 in Prague – October 23, 1917 in Vienna) and Hermine Jeiteles. Leopold and his brother Samuel (–1897) were merchants who ran a hemp and jute business in Rembrandtstrasse, Vienna. His siblings were Marcus (1879-), Arthur, Bertha and Ernst (1887). Carl was surely very talented for music, studied with a cellist David Popper (–1913) and often played chamber music with his father, with his brother Ernst and Stephan Schifferers mother. At the end of the war in 1918, as Lieutenant in a supply regiment on the Isonzo Front, he met Fräulein Pieringer. On October 7, 1918, his wedding to Marianne Maria Mandy Pieringer (August 13, 1899, in Vienna - November 6, 1957) took place in the parish of Vienna Hernals. While his in-laws, Karl and Katharina Pieringer liked him, he was cut off by his own relatives - with the exception of Ernst - because he had married a "goy". Carl never had the opportunity to learn a profession. One of his last jobs was at the Silverware Factory of Hacker. Carl in 1938: "Am without money since I was fired on 30 June 1938. Was employed as a salesman at Hacker Metalwares Factory, Vienna IV, Phorusplatz 7, from 1 July 1930-30 June 1938 and after the [illegible] worked in the office. My wages were RM. 160.- net on 27/IV." After the Anschluss, his wife threw him out the door and his mother sent him to France. Carl went to Paris; was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz KZ on August 26, 1942; he was 48.

"Mandy" married on July 23, 1945 Gustav Manker (1913–1988; divorced in 1956) and afterwards a Romanian singer so he can stay in Austria. She had a relationship with Ernst Kubista (1910 in Glogegnitz – 2002 in Vienna). She has the twin daughters "Nani" Marianne Schoenauer (same name) who lived in England and "Feli" Felicitas, who is a cardiologist in Vienna.

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)