The Most Enchanting German Women 2010
Honorable Mention: Romy Schneider
There is a particular reason why I did not include Romy Schneider in the list of the “Most Enchanting German Women”, and it has nothing to do with the fact that she is already deceased. It’s because, according to sources on the internet, she never wanted to be perceived as German, but rather as Austrian. Nonetheless, she was and always will be very popular in Germany, even 28 years after her death in May of 1982.
Born into a family of actors, Romy Schneider started acting when she was only a teenager in the 1950s. Her breakthrough came in 1955, when she portrayed “Sissi” aka Elisabeth, the young Empress of Austria, in a movie by the same title. Even though the original “Sissi” movie and two sequels were probably the most successful movies of her career, she soon tried to get rid of the “Sissi” image and started to take on more dramtic roles. In 1958, she played Manuela, the young student at a Prussian boarding school who falls in love with her teacher (internationally renowned actress Lilli Palmer) in the movie “Mädchen in Uniform”.
In the late 1950s, Romy Schneider decided to live and work in France to be with her fiancé, Alain Delon. Even though she and Delon later split, they remained lifelong friends and continued to work together, most notably in the movie “La Piscine” (”The Swimming Pool”).
Romy Schneider was married twice, and had two children. In 1981, at the age of 14, her son David was killed in a tragic accident when he tried to climb a spiked fence and was skewered. After David’s death, she started to drink alcohol excessively, and also took pills. She still managed to shoot another movie, “La passante du Sans-Souci” (”The Passerby”), which would become her last movie. When she suddenly died in May 1982 at the age of 43, her dead was ruled a cardiac arrest, but there was speculation that she might have committed suicide with a lethal cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills.
In 1980, two years before her death
So, what do you think? Any surprises on the list? Please share your thoughts in the comments.
Tags: Anne Will, Anne Wis, Claudia Hiersche, Dunja Hayali, Esther Schweins, Franka Potente, Ina Müller, Maike von Bremen, Maria Furtwängler, Meike Schlüter, Miriam Meckel, Romy Schneider, Ulrike Folkerts
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WOW! Your readers got a real good taste, MeL! I feel that the inspiration for another video dedicated only to the 12 winning ladys is coming to my mind.
I’m a little bit proud that Meike Schlüter is still in the mind of people ’round here or maybe my little interference with a few pictures of her in the video worked. 
Btw thank you for considering my little slideshow video the must see of the week, I am really flattered!
When I get my computer back (hopefully tomorrow) I will start to work on the winning ladys video. The power supply was damaged and that ruined also my hard disc drive. Luckily I saved most of the data on an external drive, so I should be able to begin right then, when the repair is done.
WOW what for a amazing vote!
congratulations to anne will, claudia hiersche, miriam meckel.
that´s so great.
especially claudia hiersche a wish all the best and good think´s and luck for here future, here dission to leave “forbidden love” and here new role. i can´t wait to see the film. “carla von lahnstein” was a wonderful time. it will ever and ever be in my heart, but i want to more form claudia hiersche. this time is come now.
thank mel for here voting and here work around that.
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for me romy schneider is the most beautiful german woman and the best actress we ever had have.
i like the honar for here.and i like the complete list, i like that ina müller, ulrike folkerts and last but not least maria fürtwängler are on in front of the voting.
you ask mel, if there any suprices of us, anne will was on me personell list, but that she is on top of the list, that suprice me so much. i can´t see way …. may be i see here there.but i like the top three.
Well….I was out of the country (away from a computer) and missed the vote, but I agree with the top 5 (except of course I would have put Claudia Hiersche as #1 and Anne Will as #2).
Thank you MeL for your interesting surveys and stories.
AF