Margit Schramm

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Margit Schramm (21 July 1935 – 12 May 1996) was a German opera, song and operetta singer (soprano), also "operetta queen", choir singer and film actress.

Born in Dortmund, Schramm made her debut in 1954 in the musical play My Sister and I. In the 1960s she became known as an operetta diva on German television, in numerous concerts and in films, where she often appeared together with her favourite stage partner, the tenor Rudolf Schock. She could also be seen on several appearances in television shows.

Among her best-known roles are the performances in I quatro rusteghi, Clivia, Madame Pompadour, Countess Mariza, Frau Luna [de] and The Merry Widow. In this latter operetta she appeared in the role of Hanna Glawari more than 500 times on stage.

The artist also took part in several successful operetta films: Frau Luna (1964), Viktoria und ihr Husar (1965) and Walzertraum (1969). Among others, her partners were: Johannes Heesters, Brigitte Mira, Gunnar Möller, Viktor de Kowa, Reinhold Bartel and Rudolf Schock.

Together with Willy Schneider as Master of ceremony, she presented the SWF Saturday evening show "Die fröhliche Weinrunde" from 1964 to 1968 as host or landlady - among others with artists like Paul Henckels, Arno Paulsen, Jupp Hussels, Frank Barufski and Kurt Großkurth as regular guests.

In her second marriage she married the director Fred Kraus [de], the father of the pop singer Peter Kraus. Peter Kraus and Margit Schramm acted in the movie 1969 Walzertraum, Fred Kraus as director.

At the beginning of the 1980s, when the operetta lost its broadcasting slots, she retired from stage and television and lived as a businesswoman in Munich, where she died at the age of 60.

She found her last resting place at the Grasbrunn cemetery OT Neukeferloh.

• Daniel Hirschel (2007), "Schramm, Margit", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 23, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 515–515; (full text online)

• Margit Schramm at IMDb
• Podster.de: WDR5 Zeitzeichen, 12. Mai 2006
• Margit Schramm discography at Discogs