Acting · Rostock, Germany · Born April 26, 1909
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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2017
as Various Roles (archive footage)
MovieThe Queen – Marianne Hoppe
2000
Sabine Christiansen
1998
as Self
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
1991
as Maximiliane
Der Tod kam als Freund
1991
as Frau Weinstein
Zeil um Zehn
1990
as Self
Geschichten hinterm Deich
1989
MovieHeldenplatz
1989
as Hedwig Schuster
Blauer Panther
1989
as Self
MovieSchloß Königswald
1988
as Gräfin Hohenlohe
Bei Thea
1988
as Thea Ammer
MovieFrancesca
1987
as Herself
TVKir Royal
1986
as Claire Maetzig
Showgeschichten
1986
as Self
Er-Götz-liches
1984
as Zweite Frau Professor
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Marianne and Sophie
1983
as Marianne
Leute
1983
as Self
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
1981
as Elisabeth v. Ardenne
Der Richter
1981
as Mutter
TVHeut' abend
1980
as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
TVZeugen des Jahrhunderts
1979
as Self
TVDie Magermilchbande
1979
as Tante Doda
Tod eines Vaters
1978
as Mother
TVThe Old Fox
1977
as Johanna Martinek
MovieWrong Move
1975
as Mother
Heiratskandidaten
1975
as Tante Thea
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
1975
as Präsidentin
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1974
as Self
TVScene of the Crime
1970
as Witness
TVThe Commissioner
1969
as Johanna Blago
Tag für Tag
1969
as Mrs. Bryant
König Richard II
1968
as Herzogin von Gloster
TVDeath Runs After Them
1967
as Madame Brassac
MovieAndere Zeiten - andere Sitten
1967
as Self
Die Mission
1967
as Selma Selig
Briefe nach Luzern
1966
as Madame Hunter
A Winter's Tale
1965
as Die Zeit
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
1965
as Augusta
MovieTen Little Indians
1965
as Elsa Grohmann
MovieConquerors of Arkansas
1964
as Mrs. Brendel
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1964
as Self
Harlekinade
1964
as Edna Selby
Die Teilnahme
1964
as Patricia Taylor
Grimme Award
1964
as Self
König Ödipus
1963
as Iokasta
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1963
as Self
MovieTreasure of Silver Lake
1962
as Mrs. Butler
Rose Bernd
1962
as Henriette Flamm
Der Walzer der Toreros
1962
as Generalin
MovieThe Strange Countess
1961
as Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
Movie13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
1958
as Martha Krapp
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1955
as Self
MovieDer Mann meines Lebens
1954
as Helga Dargatter
German Film Award
1951
as Self
MovieNur eine Nacht
1950
as die Frau
MovieSchicksal aus zweiter Hand
1949
as Irene Scholz
MovieThe Lost Face
1948
as Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
TVBambi
1948
as Self
Das Leben geht weiter
1945
as Lenore Carius
I Need You
1944
as Julia Bach
MovieRomance in a Minor Key
1943
as Madeleine
Stimme des Herzens
1942
as Felicitas Iversen
MovieGoodbye, Franziska
1941
as Franziska Tiemann
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1939
as Renate Brinkmann
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1939
as Effi Briest
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1937
as Gabriele Brodersen
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1937
as Mabel Atkinson
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1937
as Inken Peters
MovieA Woman of No Importance
1936
as Hester
MovieWhen the Cock Crows
1936
as Marie
MovieAnschlag auf Schweda
1935
as Regine Kessler
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1935
as Käthe Liebenow
MovieTop Sergeant Schwenke
1935
as Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
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1935
as Hella Bergson
MovieBlack Fighter Johanna
1934
as Johanna Luerssen
MovieTrouble with Jolanthe
1934
as Anna
MovieThe Rider on the White Horse
1934
as Elke Volkerts
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
1933
as Ursula Diewen
MovieDer Judas von Tirol
1933
as Josefa
