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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

Ten Little Indians

Ten Little Indians

Treasure of Silver Lake

Treasure of Silver Lake

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Wrong Move

Wrong Move

Hitler's Hollywood

Various Roles (archive footage)

2017

The Queen – Marianne Hoppe

2000

Sabine Christiansen

Self · (1 episode)

1998

Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich

Maximiliane · (6 episodes)

1991

Der Tod kam als Freund

Frau Weinstein

1991

Zeil um Zehn

Self · (1 episode)

1990

Geschichten hinterm Deich

(6 episodes)

1989

Heldenplatz

Hedwig Schuster

1989

Blauer Panther

Self · (1 episode)

1989

Schloß Königswald

Gräfin Hohenlohe

1988

Bei Thea

Thea Ammer

1988

Francesca

Herself

1987

Kir Royal

Claire Maetzig · (1 episode)

1986

Showgeschichten

Self · (1 episode)

1986

Er-Götz-liches

Zweite Frau Professor

1984

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Self · (1 episode)

1984

Marianne and Sophie

Marianne

1983

Leute

Self · (1 episode)

1983

Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich

Elisabeth v. Ardenne

1981

Der Richter

Mutter

1981

Heut' abend

Self · (1 episode)

1980

Bayerischer Filmpreis

Self · (2 episodes)

1979

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

Self · (1 episode)

1979

Die Magermilchbande

Tante Doda · (1 episode)

1979

Der Alte

Johanna Martinek · (1 episode)

1977

Der Alte

Charlotte Steinburger · (1 episode)

1977

Wrong Move

Mother

1975

Heiratskandidaten

Tante Thea

1975

Im Hause des Kommerzienrates

Präsidentin

1975

3 nach 9

Self · (1 episode)

1974

Scene of the Crime

Zeugin · (1 episode)

1970

Der Kommissar

Johanna Blago · (1 episode)

1969

Der Kommissar

Lotte Boszilke · (1 episode)

1969

Der Kommissar

Amalie Schöndorf · (1 episode)

1969

Der Kommissar

Charlotte Echte · (1 episode)

1969

Tag für Tag

Mrs. Bryant

1969

König Richard II

Herzogin von Gloster

1968

Death Runs After Them

Madame Brassac · (3 episodes)

1967

Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten

Self

1967

Die Mission

Selma Selig

1967

Briefe nach Luzern

Madame Hunter

1966

A Winter's Tale

Die Zeit

1965

Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige

Augusta

1965

Ten Little Indians

Elsa Grohmann

1965

Conquerors of Arkansas

Mrs. Brendel

1964

Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen

Self · (1 episode)

1964

Harlekinade

Edna Selby

1964

Die Teilnahme

Patricia Taylor

1964

Grimme Awards Ceremony

Self · (1 episode)

1964

König Ödipus

Iokasta

1963

Blick zurück im Film

Self · (1 episode)

1963

Treasure of Silver Lake

Mrs. Butler

1962

Rose Bernd

Henriette Flamm

1962

Der Walzer der Toreros

Generalin

1962

The Strange Countess

Mary Pinder, verw. Moron

1961

13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court

Martha Krapp

1958

What Am I?

Self · (1 episode)

1955

Der Mann meines Lebens

Helga Dargatter

1954

Deutscher Filmpreis

Self · (1 episode)

1951

Nur eine Nacht

die Frau

1950

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand

Irene Scholz

1949

Das verlorene Gesicht

Johanna Stegen alias Luscha

1948

Bambi-Verleihung

Self · (1 episode)

1948

Das Leben geht weiter

Lenore Carius

1945

Ich brauche Dich

Julia Bach

1944

Romance in a Minor Key

Madeleine

1943

Stimme des Herzens

Felicitas Iversen

1942

Goodbye, Franziska

Franziska Tiemann

1941

Kongo-Express

Renate Brinkmann

1939

Der Schritt vom Wege

Effi Briest

1939

Gabriele eins, zwei, drei

Gabriele Brodersen

1937

Love in Stunt Flying

Mabel Atkinson

1937

The Sovereign

Inken Peters

1937

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung

Hester

1936

When the Cock Crows

Marie

1936

Anschlag auf Schweda

Regine Kessler

1935

Die Werft zum Grauen Hecht

Käthe Liebenow

1935

Oberwachtmeister Schwenke

Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris

1935

Alles hört auf mein Kommando

Hella Bergson

1935

Black Fighter Johanna

Johanna Luerssen

1934

Trouble with Jolanthe

Anna

1934

The Rider on the White Horse

Elke Volkerts

1934

Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten

Ursula Diewen

1933

The Judas of Tyrol

Josefa

1933