40 years ago Gisela Schneeberger played Elli in the cult series “Monaco Franze”. A conversation about Helmut Dietl’s feeling for women, the lack of roles for older actresses and the excesses of the Metoo debate.
During the shooting of Helmut Dietl’s “Monaco Franze – The Eternal Stenz” in the early 1980s, Gisela Schneeberger was a little over 30, had just become a mother and was on the way to achieving cult status herself. She was already known alongside Gerhard Polt from the series “Fast wia im Echte Leben”, from appearances in Dieter Hildebrandt’s program “Scheibenwischer” and from the Munich Kammerspiele. At the side of Helmut Fischer as “Monaco” she played Elli in a supporting role, who was jealous and uncomfortable, which brought out the winged sentence “Always this Gschiss with Elli”. Schneeberger, born in 1948, has acted in many films and series since then. For her work, she received the Grimme Prize twice, the Bavarian and the German Television Prize, the Film Prize of the City of Munich and the Bavarian Order of Merit. For a conversation about 40 years of “Monaco Franze” she suggests the Max Emanuel Brewery. The economy is around the corner in Maxvorstadt, where she lives. She only wants to be photographed casually, she doesn’t like to pose.