She attended a Catholic girls' school and a commercial college; thereafter she worked as a stenographer in a grain store.

At the same time, Schneider studied singing at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg and ballet at the municipal theater.

The couple married in 1937 and had two children: Rosemarie Magdalena, called Romy, and Wolf-Dieter, later a surgeon, born in 1941.

During World War II, Schneider lived in the Bavarian Alps near Hitler's retreat in the Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden.

In the same year Magda Schneider married the Cologne restaurant owner Hans Herbert Blatzheim [de].