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]
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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Filmography (Movies)
Hitler's Hollywood
Character:Various Roles (archive footage)
Release Date:23/02/2017
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
Character:
Release Date:07/12/2000
Der Tod kam als Freund
Character:Frau Weinstein
Release Date:01/01/1991
Heldenplatz
Character:Hedwig Schuster
Release Date:01/01/1989
Schloß Königswald
Character:Gräfin Hohenlohe
Release Date:14/01/1988
Bei Thea
Character:Thea Ammer
Release Date:10/01/1988
Francesca
Character:Herself
Release Date:11/06/1987
Er-Götz-liches
Character:Zweite Frau Professor
Release Date:12/02/1984
Marianne and Sophie
Character:Marianne
Release Date:13/05/1983
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
Character:Elisabeth v. Ardenne
Release Date:13/01/1981
Der Richter
Character:Mutter
Release Date:01/01/1981
Tod eines Vaters
Character:Mother
Release Date:18/05/1978
Wrong Move
Character:Mother
Release Date:14/03/1975
Heiratskandidaten
Character:Tante Thea
Release Date:21/01/1975
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Character:Präsidentin
Release Date:01/01/1975
Tag für Tag
Character:Mrs. Bryant
Release Date:02/01/1969
König Richard II
Character:Herzogin von Gloster
Release Date:03/03/1968
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
Character:Self
Release Date:16/11/1967
Die Mission
Character:Selma Selig
Release Date:29/03/1967
Briefe nach Luzern
Character:Madame Hunter
Release Date:07/09/1966
A Winter's Tale
Character:Die Zeit
Release Date:26/12/1965
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
Character:Augusta
Release Date:05/12/1965
Ten Little Indians
Character:Elsa Grohmann
Release Date:31/07/1965
Conquerors of Arkansas
Character:Mrs. Brendel
Release Date:19/11/1964
Harlekinade
Character:Edna Selby
Release Date:15/05/1964
Die Teilnahme
Character:Patricia Taylor
Release Date:07/05/1964
König Ödipus
Character:Iokasta
Release Date:04/05/1963
Treasure of Silver Lake
Character:Mrs. Butler
Release Date:12/12/1962
Rose Bernd
Character:Henriette Flamm
Release Date:15/11/1962
Der Walzer der Toreros
Character:Generalin
Release Date:20/02/1962
The Strange Countess
Character:Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
Release Date:08/11/1961
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Character:Martha Krapp
Release Date:31/10/1958
Der Mann meines Lebens
Character:Helga Dargatter
Release Date:26/03/1954
Nur eine Nacht
Character:die Frau
Release Date:21/04/1950
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Character:Irene Scholz
Release Date:05/10/1949
Das verlorene Gesicht
Character:Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
Release Date:19/11/1948
Das Leben geht weiter
Character:Lenore Carius
Release Date:01/03/1945
Ich brauche Dich
Character:Julia Bach
Release Date:12/07/1944
Romance in a Minor Key
Character:Madeleine
Release Date:25/06/1943
Stimme des Herzens
Character:Felicitas Iversen
Release Date:27/10/1942
Goodbye, Franziska
Character:Franziska Tiemann
Release Date:24/04/1941
Kongo-Express
Character:Renate Brinkmann
Release Date:15/12/1939
Der Schritt vom Wege
Character:Effi Briest
Release Date:09/02/1939
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Character:Gabriele Brodersen
Release Date:09/09/1937
Love in Stunt Flying
Character:Mabel Atkinson
Release Date:09/08/1937
The Sovereign
Character:Inken Peters
Release Date:17/03/1937
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Character:Hester
Release Date:26/10/1936
When the Cock Crows
Character:Marie
Release Date:23/03/1936
Anschlag auf Schweda
Character:Regine Kessler
Release Date:05/11/1935
Die Werft zum grauen Hecht
Character:Käthe Liebenow
Release Date:21/08/1935
Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
Character:Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
Release Date:14/01/1935
Alles hört auf mein Kommando
Character:Hella Bergson
Release Date:08/01/1935
Black Fighter Johanna
Character:Johanna Luerssen
Release Date:05/09/1934
Trouble with Jolanthe
Character:Anna
Release Date:17/08/1934
The Rider on the White Horse
Character:Elke Volkerts
Release Date:11/01/1934
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
Character:Ursula Diewen
Release Date:03/11/1933
Der Judas von Tirol
Character:Josefa
Release Date:25/08/1933
Television Appearances
Sabine Christiansen
Character:Self
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
Character:Maximiliane
Zeil um Zehn
Character:Self
Geschichten hinterm Deich
Character:
Blauer Panther
Character:Self
Kir Royal
Character:Claire Maetzig
Showgeschichten
Character:Self
Goldene Kamera
Character:Self
Leute
Character:Self
Heut' abend
Character:Self
Bavarian Film Awards
Character:Self
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
Character:Self
Die Magermilchbande
Character:Tante Doda
Der Alte
Character:Johanna Martinek
Der Alte
Character:Charlotte Steinburger
3 nach 9
Character:Self
Scene of the Crime
Character:Witness
Der Kommissar
Character:Johanna Blago
Der Kommissar
Character:Lotte Boszilke
Der Kommissar
Character:Amalie Schöndorf
Der Kommissar
Character:Charlotte Echte
Death Runs After Them
Character:Madame Brassac
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Character:Self
Grimme Award
Character:Self
Blick zurück im Film
Character:Self
Was bin ich?
Character:Self
German Film Award
Character:Self
Bambi
Character:Self
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