Marianne Sägebrecht
65 movies · 9 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 27, 1945 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
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.
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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).
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Marianne Sägebrecht: movies and TV shows
Acting (74)
- 2026 Watzmann ermittelt · Die Tränen der Madonna
as Maria Hauser
- 2023 A Whole Life
as Ahnl
- 2022
- 2020 Silence
as Lady at the lake
- 2019 Schmucklos
as Oma Gerti Schmuck
- 2019
- 2018 Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
as Beda Andersson
- 2018 Erik & Erika
as Schwester Sigberta
- 2016 Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
as Beda Andersson
- 2014 Der Werdenfelser Lumpazivagabundus
as Fortuna
- 2014 The Circle
as Erika Rapp
- 2014 Pettson and Findus: A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship
as Beda Andersson
- 2012
- 2012 Omamamia
as Marguerita
- 2012 Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
as Edeltraud Staller
- 2010 So ein Schlamassel
as Tante Sarah Silberschatz
- 2008 Frau Holle
as Frau Holle
- 2008 Immer Wirbel um Marie
as Marie Meyer
- 2007 Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
as Antonia Wiedemann
- 2007 Bezaubernde Marie
as Marie Meyer
- 2005 Charlotte und ihre Männer
as Charlotte
- 2004 Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
as Marga Engel
- 2004 Großglocknerliebe
as Anneliese
- 2003 Marga Engel kocht vor Wut
as Marga Engel
- 2001 Marga Engel schlägt zurück
as Marga Engel
- 2001 Scheidung auf amerikanisch
as Betty
- 2001 Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
as Veronica
- 2000
- 2000 Without Family
as Mère Barberin
- 2000 Am Ende siegt die Liebe
as Anna Linke
- 2000 Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
as Fräulein Klara
- 1999 Santa's Secretary
as Marlène Veber
- 1999 Ganz unten, ganz oben
as Elli Schulze
- 1999 Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
as Uschi
- 1999 Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
as Bonemine
- 1998 Spanish Fly
as Rosa
- 1998 Left Luggage
as Mrs. Silberschmidt
- 1998 Eine Frau nach Maß
as Margret
- 1997 And Suddenly Everything Was Different
as Marlies Schöne
- 1997 Soleil
as Tata Jeannette
- 1997
- 1997 Lorenz im Land der Lügner
as Tante Martha
- 1996 The Ogre
as Frau Netta
- 1996 Katrin und Wladimir
as Hilda Weigand
- 1995 All Men Are Mortal
as Annie
- 1995 Luise knackt den Jackpot
as Luise
- 1995 Il piccolo lord
as Klara
- 1995
- 1994 Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
as Marion Bruckmüller
- 1994
- 1994 Erotique
as Hilde (segment 'Taboo Parlor')
- 1994 Mona Must Die
as Mona von Snead
- 1993 Mr. Bluesman
as Emma
- 1993 The Milky Life
as Aloha
- 1992 Dust Devil
as Dr. Leidzinger
- 1990
- 1990 Martha and I
as Martha
- 1990 Herz mit Löffel
as Klientin
- 1989
- 1989 The War of the Roses
as Susan
- 1989 Rosalie Goes Shopping
as Rosalie Greenspace
- 1988 Moon Over Parador
as Magda
- 1988
- 1987 Bagdad Cafe
as Jasmin Münchgstettner
- 1987 Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure
as Frl. Hermann
- 1985
- 1985 Sugarbaby
as Marianne
- 1984 Ein irres Feeling
as Alfa's mother
- 1984 Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
as Journalist
- 1983 The Swing
as Tandlerin
- 1981
- 1981 C.O.D.
as Freda
- 1980
- 1978
Behind the camera (1)
- 2001 Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
Co-Writer
Talk shows and appearances (31)
- 2018 München Grill
1 episode
- 2016 Inkas Küche
1 episode
- 2014 MDR um 4
2 episodes
- 2012 Was glaubt
1 episode
- 2010 Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
1 episode
- 2007 Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
1 episode
- 2007
- 2006 Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!
1 episode
- 2004 Unter 4 Augen
1 episode
- 2003 Menschen bei Maischberger
1 episode
- 2000 Menschen der Woche
1 episode
- 1999 Volle Kanne
3 episodes
- 1999 Beckmann
2 episodes
- 1998 Alpha Forum
2 episodes
- 1997 Leute heute
1 episode
- 1997 Tietjen und Bommes
1 episode
- 1994 alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1 episode
- 1994 Brisant
1 episode
- 1992 Riverboat
1 episode
- 1991 Boulevard Bio
1 episode
- 1991 DAS!
4 episodes
- 1990 Zeil um Zehn
1 episode
- 1989 ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
2 episodes
- 1982 Wortwechsel
1 episode
- 1981 Wetten, dass..?
1 episode
- 1980 Heut' abend
1 episode
- 1979 NDR Talk Show
5 episodes
- 1976 Kölner Treff
2 episodes
- 1959 Stars in der Manege
2 episodes
- 1951 German Film Award
1 episode
- 1948 Bambi
1 episode