Marianne Hoppe
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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
Credits
Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)
as Mrs. Butler
Everyone Obeys My Command (1935)
as Hella Bergson
Wrong Move (1975)
as Mother
Ten Little Indians (1965)
as Elsa Grohmann
Der Richter (1981)
as Mutter
Stimme des Herzens (1942)
as Felicitas Iversen
Harlekinade (1964)
as Edna Selby
Top Sergeant Schwenke (1935)
as Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe (2000)
Actor
Romance in a Minor Key (1943)
as Madeleine
When the Cock Crows (1936)
as Marie
Der Judas von Tirol (1933)
as Josefa
Conquerors of Arkansas (1964)
as Mrs. Brendel
The Strange Countess (1961)
as Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
Tag für Tag (1969)
as Mrs. Bryant
I Need You (1944)
as Julia Bach
Tod eines Vaters (1978)
as Mother
Anschlag auf Schweda (1935)
as Regine Kessler
Nur eine Nacht (1950)
as die Frau
Briefe nach Luzern (1966)
as Madame Hunter
Er-Götz-liches (1984)
as Zweite Frau Professor
König Richard II (1968)
as Herzogin von Gloster
The Lost Face (1948)
as Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten (1967)
as Self
Goodbye, Franziska (1941)
as Franziska Tiemann
Marianne and Sophie (1983)
as Marianne
The Sovereign (1937)
as Inken Peters
Kongo-Express (1939)
as Renate Brinkmann
Der Tod kam als Freund (1991)
as Frau Weinstein
Das Leben geht weiter (1945)
as Lenore Carius
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich (1981)
as Elisabeth v. Ardenne
The Grey Pikes Wharf (1935)
as Käthe Liebenow
A Woman of No Importance (1936)
as Hester
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court (1958)
as Martha Krapp
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten (1933)
as Ursula Diewen
Der Schritt vom Wege (1939)
as Effi Briest
Der Walzer der Toreros (1962)
as Generalin
Francesca (1987)
as Herself
A Winter's Tale (1965)
as Die Zeit
Der Mann meines Lebens (1954)
as Helga Dargatter
Bei Thea (1988)
as Thea Ammer
Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)
as Anna
Schloß Königswald (1988)
as Gräfin Hohenlohe
Black Fighter Johanna (1934)
as Johanna Luerssen
Love in Stunt Flying (1937)
as Mabel Atkinson
The Rider on the White Horse (1934)
as Elke Volkerts
Die Teilnahme (1964)
as Patricia Taylor
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei (1937)
as Gabriele Brodersen
Die Mission (1967)
as Selma Selig
Rose Bernd (1962)
as Henriette Flamm
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige (1965)
as Augusta
Heldenplatz (1989)
as Hedwig Schuster
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)
as Irene Scholz
König Ödipus (1963)
as Iokasta
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates (1975)
as Präsidentin
Heiratskandidaten (1975)
as Tante Thea