Acting
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 1936-46, 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."
Filmography
Hitler's Hollywood
Film · 2017
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
Film · 2000
Sabine Christiansen
Series · 1998
Der Tod kam als Freund
Film · 1991
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
Series · 1991
Zeil um Zehn
Series · 1990
Heldenplatz
Film · 1989
Geschichten hinterm Deich
Series · 1989
Blauer Panther
Series · 1989
Schloß Königswald
Film · 1988
Bei Thea
Film · 1988
Francesca
Film · 1987
Showgeschichten
Series · 1986
Kir Royal
Series · 1986
Er-Götz-liches
Film · 1984
Goldene Kamera
Series · 1984
Marianne and Sophie
Film · 1983
Leute
Series · 1983
Der Richter
Film · 1981
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
Film · 1981
Heut' abend
Series · 1980
Die Magermilchbande
Series · 1979
Bavarian Film Awards
Series · 1979
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
Series · 1979
Tod eines Vaters
Film · 1978
The Old Fox
Series · 1977
The Old Fox
Series · 1977
Wrong Move
Film · 1975
Heiratskandidaten
Film · 1975
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Film · 1975
3 nach 9
Series · 1974
Scene of the Crime
Series · 1970
Tag für Tag
Film · 1969
The Commissioner
Series · 1969
The Commissioner
Series · 1969
The Commissioner
Series · 1969
The Commissioner
Series · 1969
König Richard II
Film · 1968
Die Mission
Film · 1967
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
Film · 1967
Death Runs After Them
Series · 1967
Briefe nach Luzern
Film · 1966
Ten Little Indians
Film · 1965
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
Film · 1965
A Winter's Tale
Film · 1965
Conquerors of Arkansas
Film · 1964
Harlekinade
Film · 1964
Die Teilnahme
Film · 1964
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Series · 1964
Grimme Award
Series · 1964
König Ödipus
Film · 1963
Blick zurück im Film
Series · 1963
Treasure of Silver Lake
Film · 1962
Der Walzer der Toreros
Film · 1962
Rose Bernd
Film · 1962
The Strange Countess
Film · 1961
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Film · 1958
Was bin ich?
Series · 1955
Der Mann meines Lebens
Film · 1954
German Film Award
Series · 1951
Nur eine Nacht
Film · 1950
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Film · 1949
The Lost Face
Film · 1948
Bambi
Series · 1948
Das Leben geht weiter
Film · 1945
I Need You
Film · 1944
Romance in a Minor Key
Film · 1943
Stimme des Herzens
Film · 1942
Goodbye, Franziska
Film · 1941
Kongo-Express
Film · 1939
Der Schritt vom Wege
Film · 1939
Love in Stunt Flying
Film · 1937
The Sovereign
Film · 1937
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Film · 1937
A Woman of No Importance
Film · 1936
When the Cock Crows
Film · 1936
Anschlag auf Schweda
Film · 1935
The Grey Pikes Wharf
Film · 1935
Everyone Obeys My Command
Film · 1935
Top Sergeant Schwenke
Film · 1935
The Rider on the White Horse
Film · 1934
Black Fighter Johanna
Film · 1934
Trouble with Jolanthe
Film · 1934
Der Judas von Tirol
Film · 1933
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
Film · 1933