Marianne Hoppe
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."
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Films (57)
Quand Hitler faisait son cinéma (1933-1945)
2017 · Various Roles (archive footage)
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
2000
Der Tod kam als Freund
1991 · Frau Weinstein
Heldenplatz
1989 · Hedwig Schuster
Schloß Königswald
1988 · Gräfin Hohenlohe
Bei Thea
1988 · Thea Ammer
Francesca
1987 · Herself
Er-Götz-liches
1984 · Zweite Frau Professor
Marianne and Sophie
1983 · Marianne
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
1981 · Elisabeth v. Ardenne
Der Richter
1981 · Mutter
Tod eines Vaters
1978 · Mother
Wrong Move
1975 · Mother
Heiratskandidaten
1975 · Tante Thea
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
1975 · Präsidentin
Tag für Tag
1969 · Mrs. Bryant
König Richard II
1968 · Herzogin von Gloster
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
1967 · Self
Die Mission
1967 · Selma Selig
Briefe nach Luzern
1966 · Madame Hunter
A Winter's Tale
1965 · Die Zeit
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
1965 · Augusta
Ten Little Indians
1965 · Elsa Grohmann
Conquerors of Arkansas
1964 · Mrs. Brendel
Harlekinade
1964 · Edna Selby
Die Teilnahme
1964 · Patricia Taylor
König Ödipus
1963 · Iokasta
Treasure of Silver Lake
1962 · Mrs. Butler
Rose Bernd
1962 · Henriette Flamm
Der Walzer der Toreros
1962 · Generalin
The Strange Countess
1961 · Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
1958 · Martha Krapp
Der Mann meines Lebens
1954 · Helga Dargatter
Nur eine Nacht
1950 · die Frau
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
1949 · Irene Scholz
The Lost Face
1948 · Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
Das Leben geht weiter
1945 · Lenore Carius
I Need You
1944 · Julia Bach
Romance in a Minor Key
1943 · Madeleine
Stimme des Herzens
1942 · Felicitas Iversen
Goodbye, Franziska
1941 · Franziska Tiemann
Kongo-Express
1939 · Renate Brinkmann
Der Schritt vom Wege
1939 · Effi Briest
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
1937 · Gabriele Brodersen
Love in Stunt Flying
1937 · Mabel Atkinson
The Sovereign
1937 · Inken Peters
A Woman of No Importance
1936 · Hester
When the Cock Crows
1936 · Marie
Anschlag auf Schweda
1935 · Regine Kessler
The Grey Pikes Wharf
1935 · Käthe Liebenow
Top Sergeant Schwenke
1935 · Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
Everyone Obeys My Command
1935 · Hella Bergson
Black Fighter Johanna
1934 · Johanna Luerssen
Trouble with Jolanthe
1934 · Anna
The Rider on the White Horse
1934 · Elke Volkerts
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
1933 · Ursula Diewen
The Judas of Tyrol
1933 · Josefa
Séries (24)
Sabine Christiansen
1998 · Self
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
1991 · Maximiliane
Zeil um Zehn
1990 · Self
Geschichten hinterm Deich
1989
Blauer Panther
1989 · Self
Kir Royal
1986 · Claire Maetzig
Showgeschichten
1986 · Self
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Self
Leute
1983 · Self
Heut' abend
1980 · Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979 · Self
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
1979 · Self
Die Magermilchbande
1979 · Tante Doda
The Old Fox
1977 · Johanna Martinek, Charlotte Steinburger
3 nach 9
1974 · Self
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Witness
The Commissioner
1969 · Johanna Blago, Lotte Boszilke, Amalie Schöndorf, Charlotte Echte
Death Runs After Them
1967 · Madame Brassac
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964 · Self
Grimme Award
1964 · Self
Blick zurück im Film
1963 · Self
Was bin ich?
1955 · Self
German Film Award
1951 · Self
Bambi
1948 · Self