Marianne Hoppe
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 26, 1909
- Died
- October 23, 2002 (aged 93)
- Birthplace
- Rostock, Germany
Biography
Born in Rostock, Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy landowning family and was initially privately educated on her father's private estate. Later she attended school in Berlin and in Weimar, where she began to attend theatre.[1] Hoppe first performed at 17 as a member of Berlin's Deutsches Theater under director Max Reinhardt. In 1935 she was hired by the controversial German actor and Director of the Prussian State Theatre under the Third Reich, Gustav Gründgens. They were married from 1936-46, until their divorce. Speaking years after the marriage had ended Hoppe stated, "He was my love, but never my great love, that was work."[1] One of the characters in the film Mephisto was reportedly based on her. Hoppe made no secret of her contacts with the Nazi elite in the 1930s/40s, including being invited to dinner by Hitler.[2] Her role in Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider of the White Horse, 1934) made her famous almost overnight, while her "Aryan" face made her a darling of the Nazi elite.[1] Later Hoppe would label this period of her life as "the black page in my golden book".[1] During her time acting at the home of the Prussian State Theatre, the Schauspielhaus, Hoppe developed her analytical approach to acting, which she stated consisted in her "taking apart every sentence" and giving the use of language a brilliance. This method was to be associated with Hoppe throughout her working life.[1] In 1946 her only child, Benedikt Johann Percy Gründgens, was born. Four years later after her divorce from Gründgens, Hoppe had a great success as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and increasingly played avant-garde roles, written by authors such as Heiner Muller (Quartett, 1994) and Thomas Bernhard, who became her partner in private life as well. She became a favourite of the young and iconoclastic directors Claus Peymann, Robert Wilson and Frank Castorf. Hoppe died in Siegsdorf, Bavaria, in 2002 from natural causes, aged 93. "German theater has lost its queen", said Claus Peymann of the Berliner Ensemble, whose theatre featured Hoppe's last performance, in Bertolt Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in December 1997.[2] In one of her last interviews Hoppe stated, "I have a go at happiness every day. That takes discipline, a virtue every halfway decent actor should have."
Known For
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Filmography
Hitler's Hollywood
Movie · as Various Roles (archive footage)
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
Movie
Sabine Christiansen
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Der Tod kam als Freund
Movie · as Frau Weinstein
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
TV · as Maximiliane · 6 eps
Zeil um Zehn
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Heldenplatz
Movie · as Hedwig Schuster
Geschichten hinterm Deich
TV · 6 eps
Blauer Panther
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Schloß Königswald
Movie · as Gräfin Hohenlohe
Bei Thea
Movie · as Thea Ammer
Francesca
Movie · as Herself
Showgeschichten
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Kir Royal
TV · as Claire Maetzig · 1 ep
Er-Götz-liches
Movie · as Zweite Frau Professor
Goldene Kamera
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Marianne and Sophie
Movie · as Marianne
Leute
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Der Richter
Movie · as Mutter
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
Movie · as Elisabeth v. Ardenne
Heut' abend
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Die Magermilchbande
TV · as Tante Doda · 1 ep
Bavarian Film Awards
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tod eines Vaters
Movie · as Mother
The Old Fox
TV · as Johanna Martinek, Charlotte Steinburger · 1 ep
Wrong Move
Movie · as Mother
Heiratskandidaten
Movie · as Tante Thea
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Movie · as Präsidentin
3 nach 9
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Scene of the Crime
TV · as Witness · 1 ep
Tag für Tag
Movie · as Mrs. Bryant
The Commissioner
TV · as Johanna Blago, Lotte Boszilke, Amalie Schöndorf, Charlotte Echte · 1 ep
König Richard II
Movie · as Herzogin von Gloster
Die Mission
Movie · as Selma Selig
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
Movie · as Self
Death Runs After Them
TV · as Madame Brassac · 3 eps
Briefe nach Luzern
Movie · as Madame Hunter
Ten Little Indians
Movie · as Elsa Grohmann
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
Movie · as Augusta
A Winter's Tale
Movie · as Die Zeit
Conquerors of Arkansas
Movie · as Mrs. Brendel
Harlekinade
Movie · as Edna Selby
Die Teilnahme
Movie · as Patricia Taylor
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Grimme Award
TV · as Self · 1 ep
König Ödipus
Movie · as Iokasta
Blick zurück im Film
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Treasure of Silver Lake
Movie · as Mrs. Butler
Der Walzer der Toreros
Movie · as Generalin
Rose Bernd
Movie · as Henriette Flamm
The Strange Countess
Movie · as Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Movie · as Martha Krapp
Was bin ich?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Der Mann meines Lebens
Movie · as Helga Dargatter
German Film Award
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Nur eine Nacht
Movie · as die Frau
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Movie · as Irene Scholz
The Lost Face
Movie · as Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
Bambi
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Das Leben geht weiter
Movie · as Lenore Carius
I Need You
Movie · as Julia Bach
Romance in a Minor Key
Movie · as Madeleine
Stimme des Herzens
Movie · as Felicitas Iversen
Goodbye, Franziska
Movie · as Franziska Tiemann
Kongo-Express
Movie · as Renate Brinkmann
Der Schritt vom Wege
Movie · as Effi Briest
Love in Stunt Flying
Movie · as Mabel Atkinson
The Sovereign
Movie · as Inken Peters
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Movie · as Gabriele Brodersen
A Woman of No Importance
Movie · as Hester
When the Cock Crows
Movie · as Marie
Anschlag auf Schweda
Movie · as Regine Kessler
The Grey Pikes Wharf
Movie · as Käthe Liebenow
Everyone Obeys My Command
Movie · as Hella Bergson
Top Sergeant Schwenke
Movie · as Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
The Rider on the White Horse
Movie · as Elke Volkerts
Black Fighter Johanna
Movie · as Johanna Luerssen
Trouble with Jolanthe
Movie · as Anna
The Judas of Tyrol
Movie · as Josefa
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
Movie · as Ursula Diewen