Marianne Hoppe
Born
April 26, 1909
Died
October 23, 2002 (93 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Rostock, Germany
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)
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
Witness · (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