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."
Wrong Move
(Mother)
Ten Little Indians
(Elsa Grohmann)
Treasure of Silver Lake
(Mrs. Butler)
Das verlorene Gesicht
(Johanna Stegen alias Luscha)
Hitler's Hollywood
(Various Roles (archive footage))
The Strange Countess
(Mary Pinder, verw. Moron)
Romance in a Minor Key
(Madeleine)
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
The Rider on the White Horse
(Elke Volkerts)
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
(Martha Krapp)
Goodbye, Franziska
(Franziska Tiemann)
Love in Stunt Flying
(Mabel Atkinson)
Conquerors of Arkansas
(Mrs. Brendel)
The Sovereign
(Inken Peters)
Nur eine Nacht
(die Frau)
Schloß Königswald
(Gräfin Hohenlohe)
Black Fighter Johanna
(Johanna Luerssen)
The Judas of Tyrol
(Josefa)
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
(Ursula Diewen)
Die Werft zum Grauen Hecht
(Käthe Liebenow)
Anschlag auf Schweda
(Regine Kessler)
Alles hört auf mein Kommando
(Hella Bergson)
Kongo-Express
(Renate Brinkmann)
Die Mission
(Selma Selig)
Der Schritt vom Wege
(Effi Briest)
Ich brauche Dich
(Julia Bach)
Stimme des Herzens
(Felicitas Iversen)
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
(Irene Scholz)
Der Tod kam als Freund
(Frau Weinstein)
Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
(Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris)
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
(Gabriele Brodersen)
Das Leben geht weiter
(Lenore Carius)
Der Walzer der Toreros
(Generalin)
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
(Hester)
Trouble with Jolanthe
(Anna)
Der Mann meines Lebens
(Helga Dargatter)
Heiratskandidaten
(Tante Thea)
When the Cock Crows
(Marie)
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
(Präsidentin)
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
(Augusta)
Der Richter
(Mutter)
Bei Thea
(Thea Ammer)
Heldenplatz
(Hedwig Schuster)
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
(Self)
Marianne and Sophie
(Marianne)
Rose Bernd
(Henriette Flamm)
Tag für Tag
(Mrs. Bryant)
Briefe nach Luzern
(Madame Hunter)
König Ödipus
(Iokasta)
Harlekinade
(Edna Selby)
König Richard II
(Herzogin von Gloster)
Francesca
(Herself)
A Winter's Tale
(Die Zeit)
Er-Götz-liches
(Zweite Frau Professor)
Die Teilnahme
(Patricia Taylor)
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
(Elisabeth v. Ardenne)
Leute
(Self)
Showgeschichten
(Self)
Blick zurück im Film
(Self)
Der Kommissar
(Johanna Blago)
Der Kommissar
(Lotte Boszilke)
Der Kommissar
(Amalie Schöndorf)
Der Kommissar
(Charlotte Echte)
Kir Royal
(Claire Maetzig)
Der Tod läuft hinterher
(Madame Brassac)
Der Alte
(Johanna Martinek)
Der Alte
(Charlotte Steinburger)
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
(Maximiliane)
Sabine Christiansen
(Self)
Scene of the Crime
(Zeugin)
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
(Self)
Geschichten hinterm Deich
Die Magermilchbande
(Tante Doda)
Blauer Panther
(Self)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
(Self)
Bambi Awards
(Self)
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
(Self)
Bayerischer Filmpreis
(Self)
3 nach 9
(Self)
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
(Self)
Zeil um Zehn
(Self)
Was bin ich?
(self)
Heut' abend
(Self)