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."

Known For: Acting

Born: Rostock, Germany, 1909-04-26

Died: 2002-10-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	The Judas of Tyrol	Josefa	50
2	1933	Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten	Ursula Diewen	0
3	1934	The Rider on the White Horse	Elke Volkerts	20
4	1934	Trouble with Jolanthe	Anna	70
5	1934	Black Fighter Johanna	Johanna Luerssen	50
6	1935	Alles hört auf mein Kommando	Hella Bergson	0
7	1935	Oberwachtmeister Schwenke	Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris	50
8	1935	Die Werft zum Grauen Hecht	Käthe Liebenow	0
9	1935	Anschlag auf Schweda	Regine Kessler	0
10	1936	When the Cock Crows	Marie	0
11	1936	Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung	Hester	60
12	1937	The Sovereign	Inken Peters	50
13	1937	Love in Stunt Flying	Mabel Atkinson	50
14	1937	Gabriele eins, zwei, drei	Gabriele Brodersen	50
15	1939	Der Schritt vom Wege	Effi Briest	43
16	1939	Kongo-Express	Renate Brinkmann	0
17	1941	Goodbye, Franziska	Franziska Tiemann	70
18	1942	Stimme des Herzens	Felicitas Iversen	50
19	1943	Romance in a Minor Key	Madeleine	68
20	1944	Ich brauche Dich	Julia Bach	50
21	1945	Das Leben geht weiter	Lenore Carius	0
22	1948	Das verlorene Gesicht	Johanna Stegen alias Luscha	0
23	1949	Schicksal aus zweiter Hand	Irene Scholz	0
24	1950	Nur eine Nacht	die Frau	0
25	1954	Der Mann meines Lebens	Helga Dargatter	0
26	1958	13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court	Martha Krapp	55
27	1961	The Strange Countess	Mary Pinder, verw. Moron	62
28	1962	Der Walzer der Toreros	Generalin	0
29	1962	Rose Bernd	Henriette Flamm	0
30	1962	Treasure of Silver Lake	Mrs. Butler	70
31	1963	König Ödipus	Iokasta	0
32	1964	Die Teilnahme	Patricia Taylor	0
33	1964	Harlekinade	Edna Selby	0
34	1964	Conquerors of Arkansas	Mrs. Brendel	46
35	1965	Ten Little Indians	Elsa Grohmann	63
36	1965	Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige	Augusta	88
37	1965	A Winter's Tale	Die Zeit	100
38	1966	Briefe nach Luzern	Madame Hunter	0
39	1967	Die Mission	Selma Selig	0
40	1967	Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten	Self	0
41	1968	König Richard II	Herzogin von Gloster	0
42	1969	Tag für Tag	Mrs. Bryant	0
43	1975	Im Hause des Kommerzienrates	Präsidentin	0
44	1975	Heiratskandidaten	Tante Thea	0
45	1975	Wrong Move	Mother	68
46	1981	Der Richter	Mutter	0
47	1981	Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich	Elisabeth v. Ardenne	0
48	1983	Marianne and Sophie	Marianne	0
49	1984	Er-Götz-liches	Zweite Frau Professor	0
50	1987	Francesca	Herself	0
51	1988	Bei Thea	Thea Ammer	0
52	1988	Schloß Königswald	Gräfin Hohenlohe	10
53	1989	Heldenplatz	Hedwig Schuster	0
54	1991	Der Tod kam als Freund	Frau Weinstein	0
55	2000	The Queen – Marianne Hoppe		63
56	2017	Hitler's Hollywood	Various Roles (archive footage)	64

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
2	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
3	1955	What Am I?	Self	65
4	1963	Blick zurück im Film	Self	0
5	1964	Grimme Awards Ceremony	Self	0
6	1964	Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen	Self	0
7	1967	Death Runs After Them	Madame Brassac	0
8	1969	Der Kommissar	Johanna Blago	79
9	1969	Der Kommissar	Lotte Boszilke	79
10	1969	Der Kommissar	Amalie Schöndorf	79
11	1969	Der Kommissar	Charlotte Echte	79
12	1970	Scene of the Crime	Witness	61
13	1974	3 nach 9	Self	65
14	1977	Der Alte	Johanna Martinek	60
15	1977	Der Alte	Charlotte Steinburger	60
16	1979	Die Magermilchbande	Tante Doda	0
17	1979	Zeugen des Jahrhunderts	Self	0
18	1979	Bayerischer Filmpreis	Self	0
19	1980	Heut' abend	Self	0
20	1983	Leute	Self	0
21	1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
22	1986	Showgeschichten	Self	0
23	1986	Kir Royal	Claire Maetzig	73
24	1989	Blauer Panther	Self	0
25	1989	Geschichten hinterm Deich		0
26	1990	Zeil um Zehn	Self	0
27	1991	Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich	Maximiliane	0
28	1998	Sabine Christiansen	Self	0

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