Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Stefanie Paula Henni Gertrud Hoppe ( born April 26, 1909 in Rostock, † 23 October 2002 in the village of Victory ) was a German actress.
Life
The daughter of the manor owner Gustav Hoppe and his wife Margaret born chef grew up good rock Discontents Ostprignitz (now Prignitz, community Kümmernitztal ) on. She attended from 1924 to 1926, the Königin-Luise- pin in Berlin and then attended business school in Weimar. Marianne Hoppe took acting classes at Lucie Polite and debuted in 1928 in a matinee the stage of youth Berlin.
In the 1930s, she began her career in the theater. 1928 to 1930 she played at the Deutsches Theater under Max Reinhardt, from 1930 to 1932 at the New Theatre in Frankfurt am Main and from 1932 to 1934 at the Munich Chamber games. She was engaged since 1935 in the Prussian State Theater in Berlin under the director Gustaf. From 1936 to 1946 she was married to him in order for his homosexuality and to protect him from persecution because of their bisexuality and promote their career. 1946 from a compound with a British officer her only son Benedict Hoppe born. She lived in the 1970s with the actress Anni Mewes together.
Marianne Hoppe became famous then as a star of the UFA. Major film roles were that of Elke in the film adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella The Ghost Rider and Effi Briest in a step of the way and the Madeleine in Romanze in Moll.
After the Second World War, it focused mainly on her theater work and was connected with the theaters in Dusseldorf ( Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus ), Hamburg ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus ) Bochum and Frankfurt am Main. Most recently, she was seen regularly at the Berliner Ensemble, and at the Vienna Burgtheater. She stood still until old age of 88 years on stage. In Kir Royal from 1986, she played a leading role episodes.
Outstanding work: King Lear, directed by Robert Wilson and Quartet by Heiner Müller, directed by the author at the destination ( Salzburg Festival, 1981) and Heldenplatz ( Vienna Burgtheater, 1988) by Thomas Bernhard ( Director respectively Claus Peymann ). She played her last role at the Berliner Ensemble as a substitute for the diseased Bernhard Minetti in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht, also directed by Heiner Müller.
For a splash again made the documentary film by Werner Schroeter The Queen - Marianne Hoppe in 2001.
Hoppe's playing style was characterized by a mixture of casualness and power on one side and cool aloofness and fragility on the other side, connected both by external and charismatic appeal. Not infrequently they also emerged with custom literary programs - so they assumed after the tragic death of Ingeborg Bachmann's a recitation evening with texts of the writer together, who also appeared as a talking board.
Resident had Marianne Hoppe in victory, Upper Bavaria, in the cemetery there is also her grave.
Filmography ( excerpt)
Documentary about Marianne Hoppe
- The Queen - Marianne Hoppe, 1999/2000, Director: Werner Schroeter