Person Details

Birthday: 1945-08-27 18:06:39

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany

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Movie Involvements: 29

TV Involvements: 10


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marianne Sägebrecht (born 27 August 1945, Starnberg, Bavaria) is a German actress, most famous for her appearance in the movies Sugarbaby, Bagdad Café, and The War of the Roses. This Rubenesque character player with a heart-shaped face and child-like features began her career as a leading producer and performer of Germany's alternative theater/cabaret scene. The eclectic background of Marianne Sägebrecht included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business. Claiming to be inspired by Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II, she became known as the "mother of Munich's sub-culture" as producer and performer of avant-garde theater and cabaret revues, particularly with her troupe Opera Curiosa. Spotted by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder in which she essayed the role of a delicate prostitute, Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho Panza in Adlon's TV special Herr Kischott (1979), a spin on Don Quixote. The director put her in his 1983 feature The Swing in a small role and then created the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985) especially for her. American films beckoned as well and Sägebrecht was often cast in roles tailored to her unique abilities. Paul Mazursky reworked the part of a teutonic masseuse for her in Moon over Parador (1988) while Danny DeVito tailored the part of the German housekeeper for a divorcing couple in The War of the Roses (1989). Returning to Germany, she shone as the timid maid in the 1930s who marries her Jewish employer for convenience then falls in love in Martha and I (1990; released in the USA in 1995). Sägebrecht headlined the black comedy as an unhappy wife whose straying husband plots her death in Mona Must Die (1994) and had small supporting parts in The Ogre (1996) and Left Luggage (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article Marianne Sägebrecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Bambi Awards
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9

Bambi Awards

(1948) Self
SOKO 5113
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6

SOKO 5113

(1978) Frieda
Deutscher Filmpreis
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6

Deutscher Filmpreis

(1951) Self
Volle Kanne
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4

Volle Kanne

(1999) Self
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
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6

ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

(1989) Self
Stars in der Manege
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5

Stars in der Manege

(1959) Self
Inspector Rex
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7

Inspector Rex

(1994) Tanja Kraus
Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt
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0

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 N/A
2019 Oma Gerti Schmuck
Rosa Seidl
2018 Beda Andersson
herself
Schwester Sigberta
2016 Beda Andersson
Self
2014 Fortuna
Erika Rapp
Beda Andersson
Self
2012 N/A
Oma Marguerita
Edeltraud Staller
2010 Tante Sarah Silberschatz
2008 Frau Holle
Marie Meyer
2007 Self
Self
Antonia Wiedemann
Marie Meyer
2006 Self
2005 Charlotte
2004 Marga Engel
Self
Anneliese
2003 Self
Marga Engel
2001 Marga Engel
Betty
Veronica
2000 Mère Barberin
Mère Barberin
Self
Anna Linke
Fräulein Klara
1999 Marlène Veber
Elli Schulze
Self
Uschi
Bonnemine
Self
1998 Rosa
Mrs. Silberschmidt
Margret
Self
1997 Marlies Schöne
Tata Jeannette
Eva
Tante Martha
Self
1996 Klara
Frau Netta
Hilda Weigand
1995 Annie
N/A
Luise
1994 Self
Marion Bruckmüller
Tanja Kraus
Hilde (segment 'Taboo Parlor')
Mona von Snead
1993 Emma
Aloha
1992 Dr. Leidzinger
Self
1991 Self
Self
1990 Anna Liebl
Martha
Self
1989 Braut
Susan
Self
Frl. Hermann
Rosalie Greenspace
1988 Magda
N/A
1987 Jasmin Münchgstettner
Klientin
1985 N/A
Marianne
1984 Alfa's mother
Reporterin
1982 Self
1981 Sister Magdalena
Freda (as Barbara Hermani)
Self
1980 Verkäuferin
Self
1979 Self
1978 Frieda
1976 Self
1959 Self
1951 Self
1948 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2001 Co-Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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