Marianne Hoppe
Acting • Born 1909-04-26 – Died 2002-10-23
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."
Filmography
85 credits
Wrong Move
Movie • 1975
Mother
Ten Little Indians
Movie • 1965
Elsa Grohmann
Treasure of Silver Lake
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Butler
Das verlorene Gesicht
Movie • 1948
Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
Hitler's Hollywood
Movie • 2017
Various Roles (archive footage)
The Strange Countess
Movie • 1961
Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
Romance in a Minor Key
Movie • 1943
Madeleine
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
Movie • 2000
The Rider on the White Horse
Movie • 1934
Elke Volkerts
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Movie • 1958
Martha Krapp
Goodbye, Franziska
Movie • 1941
Franziska Tiemann
Love in Stunt Flying
Movie • 1937
Mabel Atkinson
Conquerors of Arkansas
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Brendel
The Sovereign
Movie • 1937
Inken Peters
Nur eine Nacht
Movie • 1950
die Frau
Schloß Königswald
Movie • 1988
Gräfin Hohenlohe
Black Fighter Johanna
Movie • 1934
Johanna Luerssen
Der Judas von Tirol
Movie • 1933
Josefa
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
Movie • 1933
Ursula Diewen
Anschlag auf Schweda
Movie • 1935
Regine Kessler
Die Werft zum grauen Hecht
Movie • 1935
Käthe Liebenow
Kongo-Express
Movie • 1939
Renate Brinkmann
Alles hört auf mein Kommando
Movie • 1935
Hella Bergson
Die Mission
Movie • 1967
Selma Selig
Der Schritt vom Wege
Movie • 1939
Effi Briest
Ich brauche Dich
Movie • 1944
Julia Bach
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Movie • 1949
Irene Scholz
Stimme des Herzens
Movie • 1942
Felicitas Iversen
Der Tod kam als Freund
Movie • 1991
Frau Weinstein
Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
Movie • 1935
Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Movie • 1937
Gabriele Brodersen
Das Leben geht weiter
Movie • 1945
Lenore Carius
Der Walzer der Toreros
Movie • 1962
Generalin
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Movie • 1936
Hester
Trouble with Jolanthe
Movie • 1934
Anna
Der Mann meines Lebens
Movie • 1954
Helga Dargatter
Heiratskandidaten
Movie • 1975
Tante Thea
When the Cock Crows
Movie • 1936
Marie
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Movie • 1975
Präsidentin
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
Movie • 1965
Augusta
Der Richter
Movie • 1981
Mutter
Bei Thea
Movie • 1988
Thea Ammer
Heldenplatz
Movie • 1989
Hedwig Schuster
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
Movie • 1967
Self
Marianne and Sophie
Movie • 1983
Marianne
Rose Bernd
Movie • 1962
Henriette Flamm
Tag für Tag
Movie • 1969
Mrs. Bryant
Briefe nach Luzern
Movie • 1966
Madame Hunter
König Ödipus
Movie • 1963
Iokasta
Harlekinade
Movie • 1964
Edna Selby
König Richard II
Movie • 1968
Herzogin von Gloster
Francesca
Movie • 1987
Herself
A Winter's Tale
Movie • 1965
Die Zeit
Er-Götz-liches
Movie • 1984
Zweite Frau Professor
Die Teilnahme
Movie • 1964
Patricia Taylor
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
Movie • 1981
Elisabeth v. Ardenne
Tod eines Vaters
Movie • 1978
Mother
Leute
TV • 1983
Self
Showgeschichten
TV • 1986
Self
Blick zurück im Film
TV • 1963
Self
Der Kommissar
TV • 1969
Johanna Blago
Der Kommissar
TV • 1969
Lotte Boszilke
Der Kommissar
TV • 1969
Amalie Schöndorf
Der Kommissar
TV • 1969
Charlotte Echte
Kir Royal
TV • 1986
Claire Maetzig
Death Runs After Them
TV • 1967
Madame Brassac
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Johanna Martinek
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Charlotte Steinburger
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
TV • 1991
Maximiliane
Sabine Christiansen
TV • 1998
Self
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Witness
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
TV • 1964
Self
Geschichten hinterm Deich
TV • 1989
Die Magermilchbande
TV • 1979
Tante Doda
Blauer Panther
TV • 1989
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Grimme Award
TV • 1964
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
3 nach 9
TV • 1974
Self
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
TV • 1979
Self
Zeil um Zehn
TV • 1990
Self
Was bin ich?
TV • 1955
Self
Heut' abend
TV • 1980
Self