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person_profile-Marianne Hoppe

Marianne Hoppe Died at age: 93

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Marianne Hoppe

Date of Birth:

Apr 26, 1909

Country of birth:

Germany

Died:

Oct 23, 2002

Biography of

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."

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Marianne Hoppe

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Filmography of

Marianne Hoppe

Found 19 Movies in total

Hitler's Hollywood

Various Roles (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2000

Francesca

Herself ( Actor )

... 1987

Wrong Move

Mother ( Actor )

... 1975

Ten Little Indians

Elsa Grohmann ( Actor )

... 1965

Conquerors of Arkansas

Mrs. Brendel ( Actor )

... 1964

Treasure of Silver Lake

Mrs. Butler ( Actor )

... 1962

The Strange Countess

Mary Pinder, verw. Moron ( Actor )

... 1961

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand

Irene Scholz ( Actor )

... 1949

Das verlorene Gesicht

Johanna Stegen alias Luscha ( Actor )

... 1948

Goodbye, Franziska

Franziska Tiemann ( Actor )

... 1941

Der Schritt vom Wege

Effi Briest ( Actor )

... 1939

Gabriele eins, zwei, drei

Gabriele Brodersen ( Actor )

... 1937

Love in Stunt Flying

Mabel Atkinson ( Actor )

... 1937

The Sovereign

Inken Peters ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1936

Oberwachtmeister Schwenke

Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris ( Actor )

... 1935

Black Fighter Johanna

Johanna Luerssen ( Actor )

... 1934

The Rider on the White Horse

Elke Volkerts ( Actor )

... 1934