Maria Schneider (actress) miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" (1979), in which Schneider said she did not feel right for the part of Mary, mother of Jesus, though later regretted missing out on this opportunity and instead eventually appeared in Zeffirelli's 1996 film "Jane Eyre" in a brief appearance as Bertha Mason. The 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by drug addiction, overdoses, and a suicide attempt. Schneider said that she disliked the instant fame accorded to her from "Last Tango in Paris". She suffered abuse and began taking drugs. By the 1980s, however, her life had improved: Schneider died of breast cancer on
Maria Schneider (politician) as a stand-alone Soviet sponsored state only in October 1949, the basis for a return to one-party government had already been created Soviet administration in April 1946, with the contentious merger of the old Communist Party with the Moderate-left SPD. In 1948 Maria Schneider joined what would become the new country's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / "Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands"). She also, in 1948, joined the Democratic Women's League of Germany (DFD / "Demokratische Frauenbund Deutschlands"), one of several Soviet style that had recently been established in the Soviet occupation zone. From 1952 till 1958 Schneider worked as