Cast & creator
Marianne Hoppe
Best known for Scene of the Crime, The Old Fox, The Old Fox
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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film credits
28
television credits
85
1933–2017 · acting roles
7.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (85)
Showing 85 of 85 credits
Scene of the Crime
Witness
1970
The Old Fox
Johanna Martinek
1977The Old Fox
Charlotte Steinburger
19773 nach 9
Self
1974
Bambi
Self
1948German Film Award
Self
1951Was bin ich?
Self
1955Sabine Christiansen
Self
1998Grimme Award
Self
1964
The Commissioner
Johanna Blago
1969The Commissioner
Lotte Boszilke
1969The Commissioner
Amalie Schöndorf
1969The Commissioner
Charlotte Echte
1969Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Heut' abend
Self
1980Blauer Panther
Self
1989Bavarian Film Awards
Self
1979
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
Self
1979Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Self
1964Showgeschichten
Self
1986Zeil um Zehn
Self
1990
Kir Royal
Claire Maetzig
1986Leute
Self
1983Blick zurück im Film
Self
1963
Treasure of Silver Lake
Mrs. Butler
1962
Death Runs After Them
Madame Brassac
1967Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
Maximiliane
1991
Wrong Move
Mother
1975
Ten Little Indians
Elsa Grohmann
1965
Die Magermilchbande
Tante Doda
1979
The Strange Countess
Mary Pinder, verw. Moron
1961
Everyone Obeys My Command
Hella Bergson
1935
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
2000
Conquerors of Arkansas
Mrs. Brendel
1964
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
Self
1967Der Richter
Mutter
1981
Der Judas von Tirol
Josefa
1933Geschichten hinterm Deich
1989
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Martha Krapp
1958Harlekinade
Edna Selby
1964
When the Cock Crows
Marie
1936Das Leben geht weiter
Lenore Carius
1945
Top Sergeant Schwenke
Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris
1935Der Tod kam als Freund
Frau Weinstein
1991Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
Elisabeth v. Ardenne
1981
Hitler's Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
2017Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige
Augusta
1965
Romance in a Minor Key
Madeleine
1943
A Woman of No Importance
Hester
1936
The Grey Pikes Wharf
Käthe Liebenow
1935
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Irene Scholz
1949
Anschlag auf Schweda
Regine Kessler
1935
Der Schritt vom Wege
Effi Briest
1939
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Gabriele Brodersen
1937
Der Mann meines Lebens
Helga Dargatter
1954Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Präsidentin
1975Tag für Tag
Mrs. Bryant
1969
Francesca
Herself
1987Der Walzer der Toreros
Generalin
1962
Love in Stunt Flying
Mabel Atkinson
1937
The Lost Face
Johanna Stegen alias Luscha
1948Er-Götz-liches
Zweite Frau Professor
1984
Schloß Königswald
Gräfin Hohenlohe
1988König Richard II
Herzogin von Gloster
1968Marianne and Sophie
Marianne
1983Stimme des Herzens
Felicitas Iversen
1942
Nur eine Nacht
die Frau
1950Briefe nach Luzern
Madame Hunter
1966
Goodbye, Franziska
Franziska Tiemann
1941I Need You
Julia Bach
1944
Black Fighter Johanna
Johanna Luerssen
1934Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
Ursula Diewen
1933
The Sovereign
Inken Peters
1937Tod eines Vaters
Mother
1978Die Teilnahme
Patricia Taylor
1964
Kongo-Express
Renate Brinkmann
1939Die Mission
Selma Selig
1967
Trouble with Jolanthe
Anna
1934
The Rider on the White Horse
Elke Volkerts
1934Rose Bernd
Henriette Flamm
1962A Winter's Tale
Die Zeit
1965Bei Thea
Thea Ammer
1988König Ödipus
Iokasta
1963
Heldenplatz
Hedwig Schuster
1989Heiratskandidaten
Tante Thea
1975