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.
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."
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. 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. Later Hoppe would label this period of her life as "the black page in my golden book".
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. 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. 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."
Filmography
all 79
Movies 56
TV Shows 23
self 17
Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe (2000)
Sabine Christiansen (1998)
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich (1991)
Der Tod kam als Freund (1991)
Zeil um Zehn (1990)
Geschichten hinterm Deich (1989)
Blauer Panther – TV & Streaming Award (1989)
Heldenplatz (1989)
Schloß Königswald (1988)
Bei Thea (1988)
Francesca (1987)
Kir Royal (1986)
Showgeschichten (1986)
Er-Götz-liches (1984)
Marianne and Sophie (1983)
Leute (1983)
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich (1981)
Der Richter (1981)
Heut' abend (1980)
Bayerischer Filmpreis (1979)
Die Magermilchbande (1979)
The Old Fox (1977)
Wrong Move (1975)
Heiratskandidaten (1975)
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates (1975)
III nach neun (1974)
Scene of the Crime (1970)
Der Kommissar (1969)
Tag für Tag (1969)
König Richard II (1968)
Der Tod läuft hinterher (1967)
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten (1967)
Die Mission (1967)
Briefe nach Luzern (1966)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
A Winter's Tale (1965)
Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige (1965)
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Conquerors of Arkansas (1964)
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen (1964)
Harlekinade (1964)
Die Teilnahme (1964)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung (1964)
König Ödipus (1963)
Blick zurück im Film (1963)
The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962)
Rose Bernd (1962)
Der Walzer der Toreros (1962)
The Strange Countess (1961)
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court (1958)
Was bin ich? (1955)
Der Mann meines Lebens (1954)
Deutscher Filmpreis (1951)
Nur eine Nacht (1950)
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)
Das verlorene Gesicht (1948)
Bambi Awards (1948)
Das Leben geht weiter (1945)
Ich brauche Dich (1944)
Romance in a Minor Key (1943)
Stimme des Herzens (1942)
Goodbye, Franziska (1941)
Kongo-Express (1939)
Der Schritt vom Wege (1939)
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei (1937)
Love in Stunt Flying (1937)
The Sovereign (1937)
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1936)
When the Cock Crows (1936)
Anschlag auf Schweda (1935)
Die Werft zum Grauen Hecht (1935)
Oberwachtmeister Schwenke (1935)
Alles hört auf mein Kommando (1935)
Black Fighter Johanna (1934)
Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)
The Rider on the White Horse (1934)
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten (1933)
The Judas of Tyrol (1933)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1911-04-26
Deathday2002-10-23 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceRostock, Germany
RelationshipsGustaf Gründgens (1936-01-01 - 1946-01-01)
CitizenshipsGermany
AwardsBerliner Kunstpreis, Bavarian TV Awards, Staatsschauspieler, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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