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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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29 March 1967
Summer 1938: renowned Viennese surgeon Professor von Benda is summoned by Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart to attend the Evian Conference on Jewish refugees.
23 February 2017
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.
01 January 1989
Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.
17 March 1937
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies.
11 January 1934
Freely adapted from Theodor Storm's novella of the same name.
09 February 1939
Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.
05 September 1934
Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia.
13 May 1983
Marianne and Sophie have had enough. The two elderly ladies from Nuremberg do not feel like they are old, although both of their sons obviously want to make them old.
15 December 1939
Renate Brinkmann is a German lady on a railway journey in Africa. She is wooed by two very different men.
12 February 1984
Episodic film based on four plays (‘Der Hund im Hirn’, ‘Lohengrin’, ‘Der Mörder’, and ‘Minna Magdalena’) by Curt Goetz, each with Carl-Heinz Schroth in the leading role.
18 May 1978
Alexander spends christmas with his mother but this year he gets a new perspective on the traditions.
12 December 1962
Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs.
17 August 1934
Comedy about a prize pig, who’s more than a tad responsible for the turbulent adventures in his small town.
31 July 1965
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.
14 March 1975
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live.
08 November 1961
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
31 October 1958
Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen in recent years, instead traveling the world and earning himself the nickname "Don Chaussee".
05 October 1949
A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.
11 June 1987
A group of aging friends, foes, and former colleagues gather to celebrate and deride the life of 80-year-old actress Francesca on her birthday.
09 August 1937
Mabel is a successful pilot who hates sensational media, but falls in love with Jack, a womanizer journalist with conservative views on gender.
07 December 2000
Werner Schroeter's lovely and touching portrait of the great German actress Marianne Hoppe, whose career spanned from the glory days of the Weimar era through the Nazi years to a postwar return to the stage in Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and experimental productions by Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller.
19 November 1964
Based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, the film, set entirely in the state of Arkansas, tells of the conflict of interests between the local townspeople and homesteaders on the surrounding land, miners arriving during the gold rush, cowboys and cattle thieves who cause problems in the area, and the native tribes of the region.
25 June 1943
A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
27 October 1942
In a small town in northern Germany at the turn of the century: The wealthy mayor's daughter Felizitas marries the much older owner of a trading house because her childhood friend and lover, an impoverished shipowner's son who has broken off his painting studies, withdraws from her.
14 January 1935
A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.
21 August 1935
Otto is pressured by his former girlfriend Mila to marry her. His friend and colleague Franz gets him a new job at Bernhard Münchow's remote auto repair shop, where Otto is safe from Mila for the time being.
25 August 1933
In the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play.
24 April 1941
The relationship between Franziska and her partner Michael, a globetrotting photojournalist, remains strained due to their constant separation, until tragedy strikes, forcing Michael to come home and to make a decision about their future.
19 November 1948
A clearly confused girl is found wandering around Stuttgart and can't be understood, because she's speaking in a foreign language.
14 January 1988
In Königswald Castle, eight noble old ladies and their maid are waiting for the end of World War II.
12 July 1944
The actress Julia Bach is married to the famous director, Professor Paulus Allmann; however, no one is to know about the marriage.
09 September 1937
Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk.
05 November 1935
The student Hans Kessler is suspected of having murdered the banker Hergotin, who has been found dead in his hotel in Zurich.
26 October 1936
Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford.
10 January 1988
David flies from Tel Aviv to Munich to study. Through a gay friend he meets Thea, the older quirky landlady of a gay pub.
01 January 1991
A large chemical company in southern Germany is experiencing strange glitches in its data processing.
21 April 1950
Hamburg, shortly after the Second World War. On the Reeperbahn, a former overseas captain, who keeps his head above water as a stoker, meets a desperate and lonely woman whose marriage has been destroyed by the war.
23 March 1936
Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor.
