Marianne Sägebrecht
Acting
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.
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Watzmann ermittelt · Die Tränen der Madonna
2026
Maria Hauser
movieSilence
2020
Lady at the lake
movieSchmucklos
2019
Oma Gerti Schmuck
tvBier Royal
2019
Rosa Seidl
moviePettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
2018
Beda Andersson
tvMünchen Grill
2018
herself
movieErik & Erika
2018
Schwester Sigberta
moviePettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
2016
Beda Andersson
movieThe Circle
2014
Erika Rapp
tvMDR um 4
2014
Self
movieOmamamia
2012
Marguerita
movieDie Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
2012
Edeltraud Staller
movieSo ein Schlamassel
2010
Tante Sarah Silberschatz
movieFrau Holle
2008
Frau Holle
movieImmer Wirbel um Marie
2008
Marie Meyer
movieDas Geheimnis meiner Schwester
2007
Antonia Wiedemann
movieBezaubernde Marie
2007
Marie Meyer
movieMarga Engel gibt nicht auf
2004
Marga Engel
movieGroßglocknerliebe
2004
Anneliese
movieMarga Engel kocht vor Wut
2003
Marga Engel
movieMarga Engel schlägt zurück
2001
Marga Engel
tvSans famille
2000
Mère Barberin
movieWithout Family
2000
Mère Barberin
movieAm Ende siegt die Liebe
2000
Anna Linke
movieIl ritorno del piccolo Lord
2000
Fräulein Klara
movieSanta's Secretary
1999
Marlène Veber
tvBeckmann
1999
Self
movieLeft Luggage
1998
Mrs. Silberschmidt
movieEine Frau nach Maß
1998
Margret
movieSoleil
1997
Tata Jeannette
movieThe Ogre
1996
Frau Netta
Katrin und Wladimir
1996
Hilda Weigand
tvInspector Rex
1994
Tanja Kraus
movieErotique
1994
Hilde (segment 'Taboo Parlor')
Mona Must Die
1994
Mona von Snead
tvBrisant
1994
Self
movieDust Devil
1992
Dr. Leidzinger
tvRiverboat
1992
Self
tvDAS!
1991
Self
tvCafé Meineid
1990
Anna Liebl
movieMartha and I
1990
Martha
movieRosalie Goes Shopping
1989
Rosalie Greenspace
movieBagdad Cafe
1987
Jasmin Münchgstettner
movieCrazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure
1987
Frl. Hermann
movieSugarbaby
1985
Marianne
movieEin irres Feeling
1984
Alfa's mother
movieIm Himmel ist die Hölle los
1984
Journalist
movieThe Swing
1983
Tandlerin
tvDas Traumschiff
1981
Sister Magdalena
movieC.O.D.
1981
Freda
Anderland
1980
Verkäuferin
tvSOKO München
1978
Frieda
tvBambi
1948
Self