Marianne Sägebrecht
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1945-08-27 (79 years old)
Place of Birth Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Marianne Sägebrecht
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.
Known For
Actor
as Ahnl
as Lady at the lake
as Oma Gerti Schmuck
as Rosa Seidl
as Beda Andersson
as Schwester Sigberta
as herself
as Beda Andersson
as Self
as Fortuna
as Erika Rapp
as Beda Andersson
as Self
as Oma Marguerita
as Edeltraud Staller
as Self
as Tante Sarah Silberschatz
as Self
as Frau Holle
as Marie Meyer
as Antonia Wiedemann
as Marie Meyer
as Self
as Self
as Charlotte
as Marga Engel
as Anneliese
as Self
as Marga Engel
as Self
as Marga Engel
as Betty
as Veronica
as Mère Barberin
as Anna Linke
as Fräulein Klara
as Mère Barberin
as Self
as Marlène Veber
as Elli Schulze
as Uschi
as Bonemine
as Self
as Self
as Rosa
as Mrs. Silberschmidt
as Margret
as Self
as Marlies Schöne
as Tata Jeannette
as Tante Martha
as Self
as Self
as Klara
as Frau Netta
as Hilda Weigand
as Annie
as Luise
as Marion Bruckmüller
as Hilde (segment 'Taboo Parlor')
as Mona von Snead
as Self
as Tanja Kraus
as Self
as Emma
as Aloha
as Dr. Leidzinger
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Martha
as Anna Liebl
as Self
as Susan
as Rosalie Greenspace
as Frl. Hermann
as Self
as Magda
as Jasmin Münchgstettner
as Klientin
as Marianne
as Alfa's mother
as Reporterin
as Tandlerin
as Self
as Freda (as Barbara Hermani)
as Sister Magdalena
as Self
as Verkäuferin
as Self
as Self
as Frieda
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
Writer
as Co-Writer