- Although she was engaged to Franz Antel, they didn't marry (1949).
- Retired 1977.
- Lost her parents at the age of two and was brought up by relatives in Vienna.
- Brunette, dark-eyed Austrian leading lady trained for acting at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna under Josef Danegger. Prior to that she had studied dancing under Grete Wiesenthal. Began on stage at the Deutsches Theater in Prague and was 'discovered' for the screen by 'Louis Trenker' who cast her in The Prodigal Son (1934). Her popularity continued unabated during the post-war years, mainly because of her unaffected, natural 'girl next door' personality. Nicknamed 'Mariandl' (after her biggest hit song), she appeared in operettas, musical comedies, 'Heimatfilms' and romantic melodramas, in addition to performing chansons and Lieder in cabaret.
- Already in 1929, even before the final examination of her study, she was engaged at the Stadttheater Aussig where she made her debut in the play "Vater sein dagegen sehr".
- After the war she appeared in the first Austrian post-war movie "Der weite Weg" (46), it followed "Der Hofrat Geiger" (47) in which she sang the hit "Mariandl" which helped her to get a second career as a singer of pop songs and Viennese songs.
- She found out her enthusiasm for the dance and she took lessons with Grete Wiesenthal. But a serious road accident destroyed her dreams of a dance career and she attended the Academy for Music and Performing Arts.
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