Biography
Rosemary Magdalena Albach, known to the audience and fans like Romi Schneider, was born at the end of September 1938 in Vienna. It seems to be written in the family to become an actress. Mam Magda Schneider - the star of German cinema. Father, Austrian Wolf Albach-Retty, too, the actor, and hereditary. His family was closely connected with cinema.
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Caring for children got grandmother and grandfather. Parents constantly disappeared on shooting. And when Romi turned 4 years old, dad with mom had separated. Her together with his brother Wolf-Dieter was sent to live to her grandparents in the Bavarian village. Soon, Mom married a restaurant from Cologne Hans Herbert Blazheim, and his father married Marlene's work colleague. Caring for children has moved away from the second plan on the third.
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In the autumn of 1944, Rosemary Magdalena Albach went to primary school. And after 5 years, the nuns of the Order of St. Augustine, the nuns of the Order of St. Augustine, were engaged in her upbringing and training: Romi continued training in the boarding school for girls in the women's monastery near Salzburg. As later in the interview, one of the nuns admitted, Mom extremely rarely visited the daughter. And the father and grandmother failed to see never.
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The girl grew artistic. She did not transfer accurate science in the spirit, but he drew well, loved the story and local history. And also sang perfectly. In the boarding school, located in the castle of Goldenstin, Romi Schneider has lived for up to 14 years. The nuns complained to the mother, which occasionally visited the daughter, on her mischief, notion and absenteeism. After the end of the monastic boarding school, the girl was going to enter the Cologne art school. But these plans destroyed the hand of fate.
Films
The cinematic biography of Romi Schneider began when Young Beauty turned 14. Her mother offered a major role in the melodrame "when white lilac blooms". Magda asked the director to try the role of his daughter of his heroine Romi. He agreed.
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When the girl heard news, she was on the seventh heaven from the filled happiness. After all, the desire to go to the scene ripe in it for a long time. Samples of Young Rosemary took place brilliantly, and in November 1953 the first film with her participation was released on the screens.
Next year, Romi Schneider starred in the second picture - Fireworks. She played a young heroine named Anna Odeaholzzer, who threw a house for the sake of working in a clutch circus. In the credits of this film, the actress was first facilitated as Romi Schneider.
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In this tape, the artist noticed director Ernst Marishka. He was so delighted with her talent, which approved the main role in his picture of the "Mother of the Queen". To do this, he had to refuse the actress Sona Ciman previously approved for the role of actress. The picture received a deafening success, and Romi Schneider woke up famous. From this point on, her mother was in the shadow of the glory of his minor daughter.
In the 1955th, the young artist met for the third time at the filming platform with his mother. In the painting "Marsh for the emperor" the whole family gathered: the key male role went to the father of Romi. And again deafening success. In just 2-3 years, the girl turned into a star of German cinema.
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World fond came to Romi Schneider when she turned 16. She starred in the historic picture of "Sissi" about the young people of Elizabeth Bavarian. The film had such a loud success that it was immediately filmed 2 more continuations. For 2 years, 6 million people looked the trilogy.
The Schneider manager became her stepfather Hans Herbert Blazheim. He undertook to manage her incomes and controlled the roles that were offered actress. But he was not at all interested in creative needs of Romi. When she refused to be filmed in the 4th film about Sissi, fearing to become an actress of one role, a crack arose in relations with stepfather. He insisted on the shooting, but his paddle was dismissed.
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In 1958, the girl starred in the picture, which played a decisive role in her fate. The film "Christina" not only brought her a huge fee in half a million brands, but also introduced Romi Schneider and Alena Delon, while a little-known French actor. The broken romance made the German star leave their homeland and go for her beloved in Paris. France met the German-Austrian beauty indifferently.
The breakthrough for the actress happened only after acquaintance with Lukino Wisconti. The famous director suggested Romi to play in the play "It's a pity that she is a betrayer" with her husband. Acquaintance from Wisconti was the cause of a new turn in the creative biography of Romi Schneider.
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The director introduced the "Austrian Bun", as he called it, with Coco Chanel himself. She grafted the girl sophisticated manners and taught to understand fashion. Diet, gymnastics and pool firmly entered the life of the actress. The life of Romi Schneider was transformed. As she later admitted, she changed three people - Delon, Wisconti and Chanel.
The play with the participation of the actress, which took place in March 1961, was visited by Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Macmene and Jean Cocteau. Since then, suggestions from the French directories fell on it, as from the horns of abundance.
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In the same 1961, the actress starred in the new film of Wisconti "Bokachco-70" and in the screening of the Roman Kafka Process. In this film, the actress played laziness and considered this role as best in his career. For this work, Schneider was awarded the prestigious French Prize "Crystal Star".
The films "Winners" and "Cardinal" were successful, published in 1963. For the role in the last picture, the star was nominated for the Golden Globe. But the personal life of Romi Schneider suffered collapse. After severe depression, the actress returned to the shooting only in a year. In 1965, she starred in the comedy "What's new, pussy?" According to Woody Allen script. In the same year, the artist returned to his homeland.
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In the late 1960s and in the 70s, the actress was shot a lot. She brilliantly played in the paintings "Ludwig" and "Cesar and Rosali" in Tandem with Yves Montan. The star was at a career peak and could choose which directors to enter into a contract. She starred from Matrov such as Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Trentinyan, Klaus Kinski and Jane Birkin. The German cinema assigned actress the status of "Grand Ladies".
With a former husband, Alain Delon, Romi Schneider met at the filming of the Pool paints and the "Killing Trotsky". The press watched each gesture of ex-spouses. It seems she felt that the last decade of her creative career and life was faced. Therefore, worked for wear, removing in several films per year.
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For example, for 10 months of 1973-74, it appeared in 5 tapes. The most notable film projects of the 1970s - "Train", "love in the rain", "distraught ram", "old rifle", "Mado" and "most importantly - love."
For the last film, the actress received its first "Cesar". She went for the melodrama "Simple History". In the last 2 years of his life, at the very beginning of the 1980s, the star was starred in the pictures of "Bancircher", "Ghost of Love" and "Passage from San Susti".
Personal life
The main man in the life of Romi Schneider was Alain Delon. Their painful love, similar to the attraction "American Gorki", lasted only a few years, but the defill of this fatal passion leaving the rest of his life. On the tour in America, the actress learned about Delon's novel with Natalie Bartelemi. The woman had shown that this is another duck from journalists. But when he returned to Paris, found an empty apartment. Alain Delon married Barthelemy.
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From unbearable suffering, the actress tried to commit suicide. Then he looked at the work with his head and returned to Germany. Soon she married director Harry Mayen. They had a son David. Romi seemed that she rebelled out of the ashes and again gained happiness.
But in the late 1960s, Alain Delon arose in her life. His call sounded in the Schneider's family nest like Thunder. Alain was divorced with his wife and was intensified into some kind of trouble. He also asked Romi to become his partner in the painting "Pool". The yellow press pretended to the sensation, although both actors argued that their love was left in the past.
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In fact, everything was somewhat different. The star burst between her husband and Delon. Personal life of Romi Schneider turned into chaos. After the photos of the Romi and Alena appeared in the newspapers, passionately kissing at the airport, Mayen could not stand and dissolve marriage. Two years later, he was found hung in his Hamburg apartment on the cervical scarf of Romi. Schneider accused himself in this death.
But happiness, it seems, a woman smiled again. She fell in love again. His chosen was Daniel Biazini, a personal secretary. They merried. In 1977, the pair had a daughter Sarah. But her appearance did not save marriage. After 3 years, the couple broke up.
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In 1980, they filed documents for divorce. And in 1981, there was a tragedy that killed the actress. Her 14-year-old son David, trying to climb through the fence from steel rods, died. It was the last blow of fate, to make which the heart of a woman could not.
She tried to distract from grief, removing the cinema. Next to it was a loving person - the French producer Laurent Perepen. But Romi could not recover. At home she joined the mountain alcohol and antidepressants.
Death
At the end of May, Romi Schneider and Laurent Peten arrived in Paris. They discussed plans for the weekend and buying a new home. On the evening of May 28, the actress did not go to bed for a long time, explaining that he wanted to listen to music. And in the morning of May 29, 1982, Peter found his beloved dead. She sat down, bending on a desk.
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Close to Romi manager and personal photographer excluded suicide. They said that the actress worked on a new film project, which was to be held with Alain Delon. In the tribute to the correspondence star did not do.
The cause of death was assumed to stop the heart. The organization was engaged in Delon. Romi Schneider buried on the cemetery of Bassey-Saint-Avur. At the insistence of Alena, the remains of the son of David were reburied in the grave of the mother.
Filmography
- 1954 - "The Mother of the Queen"
- 1955 - "Sissi"
- 1958 - "Christina"
- 1961 - "Bokachcho-70"
- 1969 - "Pool"
- 1971 - "Cesar and Rosalie"
- 1972 - "Ludwig"
- 1975 - "The main thing is to love"
- 1978 - "Simple History"
- 1982 - "Passage from San Susti"