Acting
Marianne Sägebrecht
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.
Filmography
A Whole Life
Film · 2023
The Muckles - The Quest for a New Home
Film · 2022
Silence
Film · 2020
Schmucklos
Film · 2019
Bier Royal
Series · 2019
Erik & Erika
Film · 2018
Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
Film · 2018
München Grill
Series · 2018
Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
Film · 2016
The Circle
Film · 2014
Pettson and Findus: A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship
Film · 2014
MDR um 4
Series · 2014
Omamamia
Film · 2012
Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
Film · 2012
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
Film · 2012
So ein Schlamassel
Film · 2010
Immer Wirbel um Marie
Film · 2008
Frau Holle
Film · 2008
Bezaubernde Marie
Film · 2007
Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
Film · 2007
Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!
Series · 2006
Großglocknerliebe
Film · 2004
Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
Film · 2004
Marga Engel kocht vor Wut
Film · 2003
Marga Engel schlägt zurück
Film · 2001
Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
Film · 2001
Without Family
Film · 2000
Am Ende siegt die Liebe
Film · 2000
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Film · 2000
Sans famille
Series · 2000
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
Film · 1999
Santa's Secretary
Film · 1999
Volle Kanne
Series · 1999
Beckmann
Series · 1999
Left Luggage
Film · 1998
Spanish Fly
Film · 1998
Eine Frau nach Maß
Film · 1998
Soleil
Film · 1997
Leute heute
Series · 1997
The Ogre
Film · 1996
All Men Are Mortal
Film · 1995
Il piccolo lord
Film · 1995
Erotique
Film · 1994
Inspector Rex
Series · 1994
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Series · 1994
Brisant
Series · 1994
Mr. Bluesman
Film · 1993
The Milky Life
Film · 1993
Dust Devil
Film · 1992
Riverboat
Series · 1992
Boulevard Bio
Series · 1991
DAS!
Series · 1991
Martha and I
Film · 1990
Café Meineid
Series · 1990
The War of the Roses
Film · 1989
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Film · 1989
Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
Film · 1989
Moon Over Parador
Film · 1988
One Day
Film · 1988
Bagdad Cafe
Film · 1987
Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure
Film · 1987
Sugarbaby
Film · 1985
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
Film · 1984
Ein irres Feeling
Film · 1984
The Swing
Film · 1983
C.O.D.
Film · 1981
Wetten, dass..?
Series · 1981
Das Traumschiff
Series · 1981
Heut' abend
Series · 1980
NDR Talk Show
Series · 1979
SOKO München
Series · 1978
Kölner Treff
Series · 1976
Stars in der Manege
Series · 1959
Bambi
Series · 1948