Madeleine Fischer

Madeleine Fischer (12 November 1935 – 8 April 2020) was a Swiss actress who was active in the Cinema of Italy.[1]

Madeleine Fischer
Fischer in 1957
Born	12 November 1935 Romanshorn, Switzerland
Died	8 April 2020(2020-04-08) (aged 84) Gubbio, Italy
Nationality	Swiss
Occupation	Actress

Biography

Fischer was the daughter of an industrialist and a teacher. She spent her childhood at her home in Romanshorn, in the Canton of Thurgau. After her parents divorced in the early 1950s, Fischer went with her mother to Rome.

Fischer first appeared in front of a camera in 1953, when she was 18 years old. Her first major role was Rosetta Savoni in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Le Amiche. She played numerous other roles in Italian cinema, but she was never heavily interested in acting.[2]

In 1958, she quit acting and married a local nobleman. She worked as a photographer and a businesswoman. In the 1960s, she opened fashion stores such as Piper Market and Piperino.[3] She began to expand her commercial activities and traveled to Milan and New York City with her husband.[4]

Fischer retired from fashion in the 1970s and settled in Umbria. She became involved in several artistic fields, such as the restoration of old objects. In the 2000s, she wrote several manuscripts, which remained unpublished. In 2004, Fischer directed Uròboro, a post-modern version of Little Red Riding Hood in the form of a comic opera.[5]

Madeleine Fischer died on 8 April 2020 in Gubbio at the age of 84.[6]

Filmography

Actress

• We, The Women (1953)
• The Bachelor (1955)
• I pappagalli (1955)
• Le Amiche (1955)
• La gran mentira (1956)
• Classe du ferro (1957)
• Lazzarella (1957)
• The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
• L'ultima canzone (1958)
• Te doy mi vida (1958)

Director

• Uròboro

References

1. "Addio a Madeleine Fischer, la «ragazza triste» di Antonioni". Corriere del Ticino (in Italian). 9 April 2020.
2. "Si e' spenta a Gubbio l'attrice Madeleine Fisher, lanciata da Michelangelo Antonioni negli anni '50: il ricordo della sua presenza a TRG con Alessandro Campanella". trg media (in Italian). 10 April 2020.
3. "Rome goes for "beat" faschion". Lebanon Daily News. Lebanon. 15 July 1966.
4. "I Malingri dinasty della Vela". La Reppublica (in Italian). 8 July 1996.
5. "Guappi di delicate infiorescenze". Accademia Palasciana (in Italian). 24 June 2010.
6. "Gubbio, morta l'attrice Madeleine Fischer". umbriaON (in Italian). 10 April 2020.

External links

• Madeleine Fischer on IMDb