Marianne Sägebrecht
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marianne Sägebrecht (born 27 August 1945, Starnberg, Bavaria) is a German actress, most famous for her appearance in the movies Sugarbaby, Bagdad Café, and The War of the Roses.
This Rubenesque character player with a heart-shaped face and child-like features began her career as a leading producer and performer of Germany's alternative theater/cabaret scene. The eclectic background of Marianne Sägebrecht included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business. Claiming to be inspired by Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II, she became known as the "mother of Munich's sub-culture" as producer and performer of avant-garde theater and cabaret revues, particularly with her troupe Opera Curiosa. Spotted by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder in which she essayed the role of a delicate prostitute, Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho Panza in Adlon's TV special Herr Kischott (1979), a spin on Don Quixote. The director put her in his 1983 feature The Swing in a small role and then created the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985) especially for her.
American films beckoned as well and Sägebrecht was often cast in roles tailored to her unique abilities. Paul Mazursky reworked the part of a teutonic masseuse for her in Moon over Parador (1988) while Danny DeVito tailored the part of the German housekeeper for a divorcing couple in The War of the Roses (1989). Returning to Germany, she shone as the timid maid in the 1930s who marries her Jewish employer for convenience then falls in love in Martha and I (1990; released in the USA in 1995). Sägebrecht headlined the black comedy as an unhappy wife whose straying husband plots her death in Mona Must Die (1994) and had small supporting parts in The Ogre (1996) and Left Luggage (1998).
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Movies (66)
Watzmann ermittelt · Die Tränen der Madonna
2026 · Maria Hauser
A Whole Life
2023 · Ahnl
The Muckles - The Quest for a New Home
2022
Silence
2020 · Lady at the lake
Schmucklos
2019 · Oma Gerti Schmuck
Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
2018 · Beda Andersson
Erik & Erika
2018 · Schwester Sigberta
Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
2016 · Beda Andersson
Der Werdenfelser Lumpazivagabundus
2014 · Fortuna
The Circle
2014 · Erika Rapp
Pettson and Findus: A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship
2014 · Beda Andersson
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
2012
Omamamia
2012 · Marguerita
Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
2012 · Edeltraud Staller
So ein Schlamassel
2010 · Tante Sarah Silberschatz
Frau Holle
2008 · Frau Holle
Immer Wirbel um Marie
2008 · Marie Meyer
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007 · Self
Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
2007 · Antonia Wiedemann
Bezaubernde Marie
2007 · Marie Meyer
Charlotte und ihre Männer
2005 · Charlotte
Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
2004 · Marga Engel
Großglocknerliebe
2004 · Anneliese
Marga Engel kocht vor Wut
2003 · Marga Engel
Marga Engel schlägt zurück
2001 · Marga Engel
Scheidung auf amerikanisch
2001 · Betty
Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
2001 · Veronica, Co-Writer
Without Family
2000 · Mère Barberin
Am Ende siegt die Liebe
2000 · Anna Linke
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
2000 · Fräulein Klara
Santa's Secretary
1999 · Marlène Veber
Ganz unten, ganz oben
1999 · Elli Schulze
Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
1999 · Uschi
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 · Bonemine
Spanish Fly
1998 · Rosa
Left Luggage
1998 · Mrs. Silberschmidt
Eine Frau nach Maß
1998 · Margret
And Suddenly Everything Was Different
1997 · Marlies Schöne
Soleil
1997 · Tata Jeannette
Lorenz im Land der Lügner
1997 · Tante Martha
The Ogre
1996 · Frau Netta
Katrin und Wladimir
1996 · Hilda Weigand
All Men Are Mortal
1995 · Annie
Luise knackt den Jackpot
1995 · Luise
Il piccolo lord
1995 · Klara
Beauville
1995
Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
1994 · Marion Bruckmüller
Erotique
1994 · Hilde (segment 'Taboo Parlor')
Mona Must Die
1994 · Mona von Snead
Mr. Bluesman
1993 · Emma
The Milky Life
1993 · Aloha
Dust Devil
1992 · Dr. Leidzinger
Martha and I
1990 · Martha
Herz mit Löffel
1990 · Klientin
Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
1989 · Braut
The War of the Roses
1989 · Susan
Rosalie Goes Shopping
1989 · Rosalie Greenspace
Moon Over Parador
1988 · Magda
One Day
1988
Bagdad Cafe
1987 · Jasmin Münchgstettner
Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure
1987 · Frl. Hermann
Sugarbaby
1985 · Marianne
Ein irres Feeling
1984 · Alfa's mother
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
1984 · Journalist
The Swing
1983 · Tandlerin
C.O.D.
1981 · Freda
TV shows (39)
Bier Royal
2019 · Rosa Seidl
München Grill
2018 · herself
Inkas Küche
2016 · Self
MDR um 4
2014 · Self
Was glaubt
2012 · Self
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
2010 · Self
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
2007 · Self
Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!
2006 · Self
Unter 4 Augen
2004 · Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003 · Self
Sans famille
2000 · Mère Barberin
Menschen der Woche
2000 · Self
Volle Kanne
1999 · Self
Beckmann
1999 · Self
Alpha Forum
1998 · Self
Leute heute
1997 · Self
Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt
1997 · Eva
Tietjen und Bommes
1997 · Self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994 · Self
Inspector Rex
1994 · Tanja Kraus
Brisant
1994 · Self
Riverboat
1992 · Self
Boulevard Bio
1991 · Self
DAS!
1991 · Self
Café Meineid
1990 · Anna Liebl
Zeil um Zehn
1990 · Self
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989 · Self
Blam!
1985
Wortwechsel
1982 · Self
Das Traumschiff
1981 · Sister Magdalena
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Self
Anderland
1980 · Verkäuferin
Heut' abend
1980 · Self
NDR Talk Show
1979 · Self
SOKO München
1978 · Frieda
Kölner Treff
1976 · Self
Stars in der Manege
1959 · Self
German Film Award
1951 · Self
Bambi
1948 · Self