Marianne Sägebrecht (born August 27, 1945) is a German actress, most famous for her appearance in the movies Sugarbaby, Bagdad Café (Out of Rosenheim) and The War of the Roses.
She was born in Starnberg, Bavaria. 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 De Vito 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).
Filmography
Großglocknerliebe (2003) - Anneliese
Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar (1999) - Bonnemine (Gutemine)
Spanish Fly (1998) - Rosa
Left Luggage (1998) - Chaya's Mother
Soleil (1997) - Tata Jeannette
Lorenz im Land der Lügner (1997) - Tante Martha
Johnny (1997)
Der Unhold (1996) - Mrs. Netta
All Men are Mortal (1995) - Annie
Beauville (1995)
Erotique (1994) - Hilde (segment "Taboo Parlor")
Mona Must Die (1994) - Mona von Snead
Mr. Bluesman (1993) - Emma
Dust Devil (1992) - Dr. Leidzinger
La Vida láctea (1992) - Aloha
Martha et moi (1991) - Martha
The War of the Roses (1989) - Susan
Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) - Rosalie Greenspace
Moon Over Parador (1988) - Magda
Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Café) (1987) - Jasmin
Crazy Boys (1987) - Frl. Hermann
Zuckerbaby (1985) - Marianne
Ein irres Feeling (1984) - Alfa's Mother
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984) - Journalist
Die Schaukel (1983) - Tandlerin
External links
Marianne Sägebrecht at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Marianne_Sagebrecht/190992#fullBio
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