Marianne Hoppe

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."
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1909-04-26
Place of Birth: Rostock, Germany
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Movies List of Marianne Hoppe

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Wrong Move

1977 Movie
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Ten Little Indians

1965 Movie
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Das verlorene Gesicht

1948 Movie
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Hitler's Hollywood

2017 Movie
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The Strange Countess

1961 Movie
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Goodbye, Franziska

1941 Movie
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Love in Stunt Flying

1937 Movie
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The Sovereign

1937 Movie
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Nur eine Nacht

1950 Movie
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Schloß Königswald

1988 Movie
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Black Fighter Johanna

1934 Movie
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The Judas of Tyrol

1933 Movie
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Anschlag auf Schweda

1935 Movie
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Kongo-Express

1939 Movie
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Die Mission

1967 Movie
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Der Schritt vom Wege

1939 Movie
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Ich brauche Dich

1944 Movie
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Stimme des Herzens

1942 Movie
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Das Leben geht weiter

1945 Movie
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Trouble with Jolanthe

1934 Movie
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Heiratskandidaten

1975 Movie
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When the Cock Crows

1936 Movie
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Der Richter

1981 Movie
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Bei Thea

1988 Movie
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Heldenplatz

1989 Movie
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Marianne and Sophie

1983 Movie
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Rose Bernd

1962 Movie
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Tag für Tag

1969 Movie
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Briefe nach Luzern

1966 Movie
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König Ödipus

1963 Movie
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Harlekinade

1964 Movie
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König Richard II

1968 Movie
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Francesca

1987 Movie
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A Winter's Tale

1965 Movie
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Er-Götz-liches

1984 Movie
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Die Teilnahme

1964 Movie