Marianne Hoppe

Marianne Hoppe

Known for Acting · 81 credits

Born
1909-04-26
Died
2002-10-23
Place of birth
Rostock, Germany

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.

Known For

TV Shows (24)

Movies (57)

Wrong Move
Movie

Wrong Move

1975

as Mother

Treasure of Silver Lake
Movie

Treasure of Silver Lake

1962

as Mrs. Butler

Die Mission
Movie

Die Mission

1967

as Selma Selig

Nur eine Nacht
Movie

Nur eine Nacht

1950

as die Frau

Ten Little Indians
Movie

Ten Little Indians

1965

as Elsa Grohmann

The Strange Countess
Movie

The Strange Countess

1961

as Mary Pinder, verw. Moron

The Sovereign
Movie

The Sovereign

1937

as Inken Peters

Schloß Königswald
Movie

Schloß Königswald

1988

as Gräfin Hohenlohe

Marianne and Sophie
Movie

Marianne and Sophie

1983

as Marianne

Rose Bernd
Movie

Rose Bernd

1962

as Henriette Flamm

Love in Stunt Flying
Movie

Love in Stunt Flying

1937

as Mabel Atkinson

Francesca
Movie

Francesca

1987

as Herself

The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
Movie

The Queen – Marianne Hoppe

2000

Romance in a Minor Key
Movie

Romance in a Minor Key

1943

as Madeleine

Hitler's Hollywood
Movie

Hitler's Hollywood

2017

as Various Roles (archive footage)

Conquerors of Arkansas
Movie

Conquerors of Arkansas

1964

as Mrs. Brendel

Bei Thea
Movie

Bei Thea

1988

as Thea Ammer

The Grey Pikes Wharf
Movie

The Grey Pikes Wharf

1935

as Käthe Liebenow

Der Tod kam als Freund
Movie

Der Tod kam als Freund

1991

as Frau Weinstein

Anschlag auf Schweda
Movie

Anschlag auf Schweda

1935

as Regine Kessler

Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
Movie

Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten

1967

as Self

Tod eines Vaters
Movie

Tod eines Vaters

1978

as Mother

The Lost Face
Movie

The Lost Face

1948

as Johanna Stegen alias Luscha

Heiratskandidaten
Movie

Heiratskandidaten

1975

as Tante Thea

Er-Götz-liches
Movie

Er-Götz-liches

1984

as Zweite Frau Professor

Kongo-Express
Movie

Kongo-Express

1939

as Renate Brinkmann

Harlekinade
Movie

Harlekinade

1964

as Edna Selby

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Movie

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand

1949

as Irene Scholz

Black Fighter Johanna
Movie

Black Fighter Johanna

1934

as Johanna Luerssen

Alles hört auf mein Kommando
Movie

Alles hört auf mein Kommando

1935

as Hella Bergson

Der Richter
Movie

Der Richter

1981

as Mutter

Stimme des Herzens
Movie

Stimme des Herzens

1942

as Felicitas Iversen

Der Schritt vom Wege
Movie

Der Schritt vom Wege

1939

as Effi Briest

A Winter's Tale
Movie

A Winter's Tale

1965

as Die Zeit

I Need You
Movie

I Need You

1944

as Julia Bach

Das Leben geht weiter
Movie

Das Leben geht weiter

1945

as Lenore Carius

König Ödipus
Movie

König Ödipus

1963

as Iokasta

A Woman of No Importance
Movie

A Woman of No Importance

1936

as Hester

Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
Movie

Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich

1981

as Elisabeth v. Ardenne

When the Cock Crows
Movie

When the Cock Crows

1936

as Marie

Top Sergeant Schwenke
Movie

Top Sergeant Schwenke

1935

as Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris

13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Movie

13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court

1958

as Martha Krapp

Goodbye, Franziska
Movie

Goodbye, Franziska

1941

as Franziska Tiemann

Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
Movie

Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige

1965

as Augusta

Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Movie

Im Hause des Kommerzienrates

1975

as Präsidentin

Die Teilnahme
Movie

Die Teilnahme

1964

as Patricia Taylor

The Rider on the White Horse
Movie

The Rider on the White Horse

1934

as Elke Volkerts

Briefe nach Luzern
Movie

Briefe nach Luzern

1966

as Madame Hunter

Der Mann meines Lebens
Movie

Der Mann meines Lebens

1954

as Helga Dargatter

Heldenplatz
Movie

Heldenplatz

1989

as Hedwig Schuster

König Richard II
Movie

König Richard II

1968

as Herzogin von Gloster

Der Judas von Tirol
Movie

Der Judas von Tirol

1933

as Josefa

Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
Movie

Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten

1933

as Ursula Diewen

Trouble with Jolanthe
Movie

Trouble with Jolanthe

1934

as Anna

Der Walzer der Toreros
Movie

Der Walzer der Toreros

1962

as Generalin

Tag für Tag
Movie

Tag für Tag

1969

as Mrs. Bryant

Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Movie

Gabriele eins, zwei, drei

1937

as Gabriele Brodersen

About 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 1936-4… With 81 credits spanning from 1933 to 2017, Marianne Hoppe has appeared in 57 films and 24 TV shows.

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