1. Margrit Rainer born as Margrit Rosa Sandmeier was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.
11 Facts About Margrit Rainer
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Margrit Rainer's parents forced her to make an apprenticeship as a photo lab assistant, but she secretly took acting classes and singing lessons.
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Margrit Rainer worked as a cashier at the Zurich hotel Hirschen in 1934, the venue of the Cabaret Cornichon.
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Margrit Rainer played in various radio plays, among others in Regenpfeifer by Jurg Amstein and Artur Beul in 1948.
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In 1969 Margrit Rainer played at the Basler Theater the role of mother in the dialect version of Edward Bond's "Saved".
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Margrit Rainer's premiered in the 1951 Swiss film Wahrheit oder Schwindel; her most popular films include Peter's mother in Heidi in 1951 and in 1955 in the sequel, Polizischt Wackerli in 1956, Die Kaserei in der Vehfreude two years later, An heiligen Wassern in 1960 and Demokrat Lappli starring Alfred Rasser in 1961, in 1971 Der Kapitan and ten years later Der Erfinder.
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Margrit Rainer first appeared with Ruedi Walter as cabaret duo in 1951, first among others in a dialect version of Jan de Hartog's "Das Himmelbett", then in numerous popular dialect farces.
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Margrit Rainer found in Inigo Gallo a new partner who frequently appeared on the side of Margrit Rainer and Ruedi Walter in films and the theater.
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Margrit Rainer died after a routine intervention: a cyst was removed in her abdomen, but she died a short time later from internal bleeding on 10 February 1982.
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Margrit Rainer was buried at Enzenbuhl cemetery in Zurich-Weinegg alongside Inigo Gallo and his wife from first marriage.
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Margrit Rainer became very popular as she often played the role of the petty-bourgeois housewife and wife, and was to the early 1980s the most popular Swiss folk actress, the "Mother of the Nation"; radiant and warm.