Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht (born 27 August 1945) is a German film actress.
Her background 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 subculture" 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 in the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985).
In 1987 she co-starred in the romantic comedy Bagdad Café. 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 played a 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).
In 1997, she was a member of the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.
Filmography
(1983) - Tandlerin
Ein irres Feeling (1984) - Alfa's Mother
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984) - Journalist*
Sugarbaby (a.k.a. Zuckerbaby) (1985) - lead role of Marianne
Bagdad Café (a.k.a. Out of Rosenheim) (1987) - lead role of Jasmin
Crazy Boys (1987) - Frl. Hermann
Moon Over Parador (1988) - Magda
The War of the Roses (1989) - Susan
Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) - lead role of Rosalie Greenspace
Martha and I (1991) - Martha
La Vida láctea (1992) - Aloha
Dust Devil (1992) - Dr. Leidzinger
(1993) - Emma
Erotique (1994) - Hilde (segment "Taboo Parlor")
Mona Must Die (1994) - Mona von Snead
Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn (1994) - Marion Bruckmüller
All Men are Mortal (1995) - Annie
Beauville (1995)
Luise and the Jackpot (1995) - Luise
The Ogre (1996) - Mrs. Netta
(1997) - Tata Jeannette
Lorenz im Land der Lügner (1997) - Tante Martha
Johnny (1997)
Spanish Fly (1998) - Rosa
Left Luggage (1998) - Chaya's Mother
(1999) - Elli Schulze
Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar (1999) - Bonnemine (Gutemine)
Private Lies (2001) - Betty
Großglocknerliebe (2003) - Anneliese
Marga Engel kocht vor Wut (2003) - Marga Engel
Marga Engel gibt nicht auf (2004) - Marga Engel
Charlotte und ihre Männer (2005) - Charlotte
Bezaubernde Marie (2007) - Marie Meyer
Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester (2007) - Antonia Wiedemann
Immer Wirbel um Marie (2008) - Marie Meyer
In aller Freundschaft (2008) - Helga Schulze
Frau Holle (2008) - Frau Holle
(2009) - Sarah Silberschatz
(2012) - Marguerita
Pettson & Findus: Fun Stuff (2014) - Beda
The Circle (2014) - Erika
References
External links
Web.archive.org
1945 births
Living people
German film actresses
German television actresses
People from Starnberg
Best Actress German Film Award winners
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses