About

Known credits:
60
Birthday:
1909-04-26
Place of birth:
Rostock, Germany
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Marianne Hoppe

Overview

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

Acting
2017 Hitler's Hollywood Actor Various Roles (archive footage) 59
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2000 The Queen – Marianne Hoppe Actor 59
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1991 Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich Actor Maximiliane N/A
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1991 Der Tod kam als Freund Actor Frau Weinstein N/A
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1989 Geschichten hinterm Deich Actor N/A
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1989 Heldenplatz Actor Hedwig Schuster N/A
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1988 Schloß Königswald Actor Gräfin Hohenlohe 58
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1988 Bei Thea Actor Thea Ammer N/A
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1987 Francesca Actor Herself N/A
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1984 Er-Götz-liches Actor Zweite Frau Professor N/A
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1983 Marianne and Sophie Actor Marianne N/A
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1981 Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich Actor Elisabeth v. Ardenne N/A
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1981 Der Richter Actor Mutter N/A
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1977 Wrong Move Actor Mother 60
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1975 Heiratskandidaten Actor Tante Thea N/A
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1975 Im Hause des Kommerzienrates Actor Präsidentin N/A
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1969 Tag für Tag Actor Mrs. Bryant N/A
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1968 König Richard II Actor Herzogin von Gloster N/A
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1967 Der Tod läuft hinterher Actor Madame Brassac N/A
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1967 Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten Actor Self N/A
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1967 Die Mission Actor Selma Selig N/A
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1966 Briefe nach Luzern Actor Madame Hunter N/A
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1965 A Winter's Tale Actor Die Zeit 59
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1965 Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige Actor Augusta 59
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1965 Ten Little Indians Actor Elsa Grohmann N/A
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1965 Ten Little Indians Actor Elsa Grohmann 59
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1964 Conquerors of Arkansas Actor Mrs. Brendel 58
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1964 Harlekinade Actor Edna Selby N/A
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1964 Die Teilnahme Actor Patricia Taylor N/A
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1963 König Ödipus Actor Iokasta N/A
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1962 Treasure of Silver Lake Actor Mrs. Butler 61
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1962 Rose Bernd Actor Henriette Flamm N/A
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1962 Der Walzer der Toreros Actor Generalin N/A
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1961 The Strange Countess Actor Mary Pinder, verw. Moron 59
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1958 13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court Actor Martha Krapp 59
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1954 Der Mann meines Lebens Actor Helga Dargatter N/A
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1950 Nur eine Nacht Actor die Frau N/A
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1949 Schicksal aus zweiter Hand Actor Irene Scholz N/A
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1948 Das verlorene Gesicht Actor Johanna Stegen alias Luscha N/A
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1945 Das Leben geht weiter Actor Lenore Carius N/A
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1944 Ich brauche Dich Actor Julia Bach 58
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1943 Romance in a Minor Key Actor Madeleine 59
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1942 Stimme des Herzens Actor Felicitas Iversen 58
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1941 Goodbye, Franziska Actor Franziska Tiemann 59
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1939 Kongo-Express Actor Renate Brinkmann N/A
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1939 Der Schritt vom Wege Actor Effi Briest 58
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1937 Gabriele eins, zwei, drei Actor Gabriele Brodersen 59
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1937 Love in Stunt Flying Actor Mabel Atkinson 58
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1937 The Sovereign Actor Inken Peters 58
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1936 Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung Actor Hester 59
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1936 When the Cock Crows Actor Marie N/A
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1935 Anschlag auf Schweda Actor Regine Kessler N/A
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1935 Die Werft zum Grauen Hecht Actor Käthe Liebenow N/A
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1935 Oberwachtmeister Schwenke Actor Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris 59
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1935 Alles hört auf mein Kommando Actor Hella Bergson N/A
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1934 Black Fighter Johanna Actor Johanna Luerssen 58
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1934 Trouble with Jolanthe Actor Anna 59
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1934 The Rider on the White Horse Actor Elke Volkerts 58
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1933 Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten Actor Ursula Diewen N/A
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1933 The Judas of Tyrol Actor Josefa 58
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