Marianne Hoppe
Known for Acting · 81 credits
- Born
- 1909-04-26
- Died
- 2002-10-23
- Place of birth
- Rostock, Germany
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.
Known For
TV Shows (24)
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Witness
The Old Fox
1977
as Johanna Martinek / Charlotte Steinburger
Bambi
1948
as Self
3 nach 9
1974
as Self
The Commissioner
1969
as Johanna Blago / Lotte Boszilke / Amalie Schöndorf / Charlotte Echte
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self
Grimme Award
1964
as Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998
as Self
Heut' abend
1980
as Self
Was bin ich?
1955
as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
Blauer Panther
1989
as Self
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
1979
as Self
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964
as Self
Showgeschichten
1986
as Self
Zeil um Zehn
1990
as Self
Leute
1983
as Self
Kir Royal
1986
as Claire Maetzig
Death Runs After Them
1967
as Madame Brassac
Die Magermilchbande
1979
as Tante Doda
Blick zurück im Film
1963
as Self
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
1991
as Maximiliane
Geschichten hinterm Deich
1989
Movies (57)
Wrong Move
1975
as Mother
Treasure of Silver Lake
1962
as Mrs. Butler
Die Mission
1967
as Selma Selig
Nur eine Nacht
1950
as die Frau
Ten Little Indians
1965
as Elsa Grohmann
The Strange Countess
1961
as Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
The Sovereign
1937
as Inken Peters
Schloß Königswald
1988
as Gräfin Hohenlohe
Marianne and Sophie
1983
as Marianne
Rose Bernd
1962
as Henriette Flamm
Love in Stunt Flying
1937
as Mabel Atkinson
Francesca
1987
as Herself
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
2000
Romance in a Minor Key
1943
as Madeleine
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
as Various Roles (archive footage)
Conquerors of Arkansas
1964
as Mrs. Brendel
Bei Thea
1988
as Thea Ammer
The Grey Pikes Wharf
1935
as Käthe Liebenow
Der Tod kam als Freund
1991
as Frau Weinstein
Anschlag auf Schweda
1935
as Regine Kessler
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
1967
as Self
Tod eines Vaters
1978
as Mother
The Lost Face
1948
as Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
Heiratskandidaten
1975
as Tante Thea
Er-Götz-liches
1984
as Zweite Frau Professor
Kongo-Express
1939
as Renate Brinkmann
Harlekinade
1964
as Edna Selby
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
1949
as Irene Scholz
Black Fighter Johanna
1934
as Johanna Luerssen
Alles hört auf mein Kommando
1935
as Hella Bergson
Der Richter
1981
as Mutter
Stimme des Herzens
1942
as Felicitas Iversen
Der Schritt vom Wege
1939
as Effi Briest
A Winter's Tale
1965
as Die Zeit
I Need You
1944
as Julia Bach
Das Leben geht weiter
1945
as Lenore Carius
König Ödipus
1963
as Iokasta
A Woman of No Importance
1936
as Hester
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
1981
as Elisabeth v. Ardenne
When the Cock Crows
1936
as Marie
Top Sergeant Schwenke
1935
as Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
1958
as Martha Krapp
Goodbye, Franziska
1941
as Franziska Tiemann
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
1965
as Augusta
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
1975
as Präsidentin
Die Teilnahme
1964
as Patricia Taylor
The Rider on the White Horse
1934
as Elke Volkerts
Briefe nach Luzern
1966
as Madame Hunter
Der Mann meines Lebens
1954
as Helga Dargatter
Heldenplatz
1989
as Hedwig Schuster
König Richard II
1968
as Herzogin von Gloster
Der Judas von Tirol
1933
as Josefa
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
1933
as Ursula Diewen
Trouble with Jolanthe
1934
as Anna
Der Walzer der Toreros
1962
as Generalin
Tag für Tag
1969
as Mrs. Bryant
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
1937
as Gabriele Brodersen
About Marianne Hoppe
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 1936-4… With 81 credits spanning from 1933 to 2017, Marianne Hoppe has appeared in 57 films and 24 TV shows.
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- Wrong Move (1975) — as Mother
- Treasure of Silver Lake (1962) — as Mrs. Butler
- Die Mission (1967) — as Selma Selig
- Nur eine Nacht (1950) — as die Frau
- Ten Little Indians (1965) — as Elsa Grohmann
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