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Marianne Hoppe

Born · April 26, 1909

Died · October 23, 2002 (93 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Rostock, Germany

Bio

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

Hitler's Hollywood

Various Roles (archive footage)

6.4

2017

The Queen – Marianne Hoppe

6.3

2000

Sabine Christiansen

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

1998

Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich

Maximiliane · (6 episodes)

0.0

1991

Der Tod kam als Freund

0.0

1988

Francesca

Herself

Elisabeth v. Ardenne

0.0

1981

Der Richter

Mutter

0.0

1981

Heut' abend

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

1980

Bayerischer Filmpreis

Self · (2 episodes)

0.0

1979

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

1979

Die Magermilchbande

Tante Doda · (1 episode)

Self · (1 episode)

6.5

1974

Scene of the Crime

Zeugin · (1 episode)

Herzogin von Gloster

Elsa Grohmann

Generalin

0.0

1962

The Strange Countess

Mary Pinder, verw. Moron

6.2

1961

13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court

Martha Krapp

5.7

1958

Was bin ich?

self · (1 episode)

6.5

1955

Der Mann meines Lebens

Helga Dargatter

0.0

1954

Deutscher Filmpreis

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1951

Nur eine Nacht

die Frau

0.0

1950

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand

Irene Scholz

0.0

1949

Das verlorene Gesicht

Johanna Stegen alias Luscha

0.0

1948

Bambi Awards

Self · (1 episode)

9.0

1948

Das Leben geht weiter

Lenore Carius

0.0

1945

Ich brauche Dich

Julia Bach

5.0

1944

Romance in a Minor Key

6.0

1936

When the Cock Crows

Marie

0.0

1936

Anschlag auf Schweda

2.0

1934

Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten

Ursula Diewen

0.0

1933

The Judas of Tyrol

Josefa

5.0

1933