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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 26, 1909
Died
October 23, 2002
Place of Birth
Rostock, Germany
Marianne Hoppe
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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
6.4
Various Roles (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
6.3
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
2000
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0.0
Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998
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0.0
Maximiliane
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
1991
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0.0
Frau Weinstein
Der Tod kam als Freund
1991
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0.0
Self
Zeil um Zehn
1990
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0.0
Geschichten hinterm Deich
1989
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0.0
Self
Blauer Panther
1989
0.0
Hedwig Schuster
Heldenplatz
1989
1.0
Gräfin Hohenlohe
Schloß Königswald
1988
Credits
Hitler's Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2017
6.4
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
2000
6.3
🎬
Sabine Christiansen
as Self
1998
0.0
🎬
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
as Maximiliane
1991
0.0
🎬
Der Tod kam als Freund
as Frau Weinstein
1991
0.0
🎬
Zeil um Zehn
as Self
1990
0.0
🎬
Geschichten hinterm Deich
1989
0.0
🎬
Blauer Panther
as Self
1989
0.0
Heldenplatz
as Hedwig Schuster
1989
0.0
Schloß Königswald
as Gräfin Hohenlohe
1988
1.0
🎬
Bei Thea
as Thea Ammer
1988
0.0
Francesca
as Herself
1987
0.0
Kir Royal
as Claire Maetzig
1986
6.5
🎬
Showgeschichten
as Self
1986
0.0
🎬
Er-Götz-liches
as Zweite Frau Professor
1984
0.0
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
🎬
Marianne and Sophie
as Marianne
1983
0.0
🎬
Leute
as Self
1983
0.0
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Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
as Elisabeth v. Ardenne
1981
0.0
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Der Richter
as Mutter
1981
0.0
Heut' abend
as Self
1980
0.0
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Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
1979
0.0
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
as Self
1979
0.0
Die Magermilchbande
as Tante Doda
1979
0.0
🎬
Tod eines Vaters
as Mother
1978
0.0
Der Alte
as Johanna Martinek
1977
6.1
Der Alte
as Charlotte Steinburger
1977
6.1
Wrong Move
as Mother
1975
6.7
🎬
Heiratskandidaten
as Tante Thea
1975
0.0
🎬
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
as Präsidentin
1975
0.0
🎬
3 nach 9
as Self
1974
6.5
Scene of the Crime
as Witness
1970
6.1
Der Kommissar
as Johanna Blago
1969
7.9
Der Kommissar
as Lotte Boszilke
1969
7.9
Der Kommissar
as Amalie Schöndorf
1969
7.9
Der Kommissar
as Charlotte Echte
1969
7.9
🎬
Tag für Tag
as Mrs. Bryant
1969
0.0
🎬
König Richard II
as Herzogin von Gloster
1968
0.0
Death Runs After Them
as Madame Brassac
1967
0.0
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Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
as Self
1967
0.0
🎬
Die Mission
as Selma Selig
1967
0.0
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Briefe nach Luzern
as Madame Hunter
1966
0.0
🎬
A Winter's Tale
as Die Zeit
1965
10.0
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Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
as Augusta
1965
8.8
Ten Little Indians
as Elsa Grohmann
1965
6.2
Conquerors of Arkansas
as Mrs. Brendel
1964
4.6
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Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
as Self
1964
0.0
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Harlekinade
as Edna Selby
1964
0.0
🎬
Die Teilnahme
as Patricia Taylor
1964
0.0
🎬
Grimme Award
as Self
1964
0.0
🎬
König Ödipus
as Iokasta
1963
0.0
🎬
Blick zurück im Film
as Self
1963
0.0
Treasure of Silver Lake
as Mrs. Butler
1962
7.1
🎬
Rose Bernd
as Henriette Flamm
1962
0.0
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Der Walzer der Toreros
as Generalin
1962
0.0
The Strange Countess
as Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
1961
6.5
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
as Martha Krapp
1958
5.5
🎬
Was bin ich?
as Self
1955
6.5
Der Mann meines Lebens
as Helga Dargatter
1954
0.0
🎬
German Film Award
as Self
1951
6.0
Nur eine Nacht
as die Frau
1950
0.0
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
as Irene Scholz
1949
0.0
Das verlorene Gesicht
as Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
1948
0.0
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
🎬
Das Leben geht weiter
as Lenore Carius
1945
0.0
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Ich brauche Dich
as Julia Bach
1944
5.0
Romance in a Minor Key
as Madeleine
1943
6.8
🎬
Stimme des Herzens
as Felicitas Iversen
1942
5.0
Goodbye, Franziska
as Franziska Tiemann
1941
7.0
Kongo-Express
as Renate Brinkmann
1939
0.0
Der Schritt vom Wege
as Effi Briest
1939
4.3
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
as Gabriele Brodersen
1937
5.0
Love in Stunt Flying
as Mabel Atkinson
1937
5.0
The Sovereign
as Inken Peters
1937
5.0
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
as Hester
1936
6.0
When the Cock Crows
as Marie
1936
0.0
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Anschlag auf Schweda
as Regine Kessler
1935
0.0
Die Werft zum grauen Hecht
as Käthe Liebenow
1935
0.0
Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
as Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
1935
5.0
Alles hört auf mein Kommando
as Hella Bergson
1935
0.0
Black Fighter Johanna
as Johanna Luerssen
1934
5.0
Trouble with Jolanthe
as Anna
1934
7.0
The Rider on the White Horse
as Elke Volkerts
1934
2.0
🎬
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
as Ursula Diewen
1933
0.0
Der Judas von Tirol
as Josefa
1933
5.0