Trivia

According to Uwe Klöckner-Draga in his book "Renate Müller - Ihr Leben ein Drahtseilakt" : on April 3 Goebbels wrote in his diary: "Renate tells me her tale of woe. She is a sick woman". On the 6th he mentions that she has been interrogated in a very dishonoring way and on the 25th of June: "Renate Müller! I help her." At the end of September - according to her sister Gabriele - Renate was drunk and sitting on a window sill when she lost balance.

Renate Müller represented the natural and self-confident woman who stood on her own two feet and impersonated a new type in the German cinema.

Her life was adapted for the screen in 1960 with the actress Ruth Leuwerik. The movie was called "Liebling der Götter" (Sweetheart of the Gods)(1960).

With the rise of the Nazi Party, Müller came to be regarded as an ideal Aryan woman and particularly in light of Dietrich's move to Hollywood, was courted and promoted as Germany's leading film actress. A meeting with Adolf Hitler in the mid 1930s resulted in Müller being offered parts in films that promoted Nazi ideals.

The actress Renate Müller experience a comet-like success at the beginning of the 30's which was abruptly ended with her early death.

A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day and along with Marlene Dietrich was seen to embody fashionable Berlin society.

When she unexpected died in October 7, 1937 in a sanatorium in Berlin, her early death and her unfortunate love with a Jewish emigrant gave rise to speculations which was thoroughly exploited by the press.

With the movies "Liebling der Götter" (1930), "Die Privatsekretärin" (1931), "Saison in Kairo" (1933), "Viktor und Viktoria" (1933), "Die englische Heirat" (1934) and "Allotria" (1936) she reached the first Guards of German actresses.

Renate Müller had to put her career aside in 1934 because of a serious illness (probaply epilepsy) and acted only seldom in front of the camera.

One of the most successful actresses in German films from the early 1930s, she was courted by the Nazi Party to appear in films that promoted their ideals, but refused.

According to Channel 4 documentary "Sex and the Swastika", aired in February 2009, she jumped from a Berlin hospital window where she was being treated for a knee injury or drug addiction.

Her sudden death at the age of 31 was initially attributed to epilepsy, but after the end of World War II, witnesses suggested that she had been murdered by Gestapo officers, although another theory contends that she committed suicide. The true circumstances of her death remain unknown.

Reinhold Schünzel, who directed eight of her movies in all, engaged her for "Peter, der Matrose" (29). But her real breakthrough came with the talkies where she also could advantageous use her trained singing voice.

Renate Müller began her artistic career with singing lessons.

She already made her stage debut in 1925 at the Harzer Bergtheater in the play "Sommernachtstraum. It followed engagements at the Lessing-Theater, at the Barnowsky-Bühnen and at the Staatstheater.

Near the end of her life she became addicted to morphine and abused alcohol.

In December 1934 she collected for the Winterhilfswerk in Berlin.

When she attended an acting training at the Reinhardt-Schule she laid the foundation of her short career.

After making Sunshine Susie (1932) in England, she returned to Germany and was delayed by anti-German French officials for a short time in Paris. The incident was used by Dennis Wheatley as a basis for his short story, "Espionage". The story and a short discussion of the incident are included in Wheatley's short story collection Mediterranean Nights.

This German star made two films in England: The Office Girl (1931) and Marry Me (1932).

The film called for her already in 1928, when the pictures were flickering silent over the screen.