- Made her stage debut in Leipzig under the direction of Douglas Sirk in 1935.
- Being the last female UFA star alive, she lived in a retirement home in Munich. She was almost blind and suffered from dementia.
- After discovering her talent as painter, her works were shown in exhibitions.
- She continued her career after the war and she impersonated many roles, especially in the 50's.
- Her engagements in front of the camera took off in the 60's.
- She acted again in some feature movies, from the 70's she normally worked for TV productions.
- Her grave is in the Nordfriedhof Cemetery in Munich (plot 178-U-66), where her sister Ellen had been buried in 1995.
- She appeared in approximately 90 movies, several of them for UFA. In later years, she appeared frequently on television, while also pursuing her career in the theatre.
- She was also the German voice of many cartoon characters and of Lucille Ball.
- Rahl's first marriage was to Theodor Reimers, her second was to producer Wilhem Sperber, and her third was to Werner Bürkle.
- Late in life she painted in the Impressionist style.
- She already came in contact with the theater during her school time and got acting lessons from the famous Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Lessons in singing and dance rounded off her education.
- With her role in the circus drama Truxa (1937) Rahl became known to a wider audience.
- In 2004, aged 90, she made a short-lived return to the stage.
- During the 1960s she joined the Munich Comedy Theatre, and began a prolific career as a television actress, appearing in various popular crime serials.
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