Marianne Sägebrecht
Actor, Film actor
1945 –
Who is Marianne Sägebrecht?
Marianne Sägebrecht 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 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, 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 especially for her.
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.
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- Born
- Aug 27, 1945
Starnberg - Also known as
- Marianne Sagebrecht
- Barbara Hermani
- Marianne Saegebrecht
- Marianne Segebrecht
- The mother of Munich's sub-culture
- The Marlene Dietrich of Bavaria
- Spouses
- Fritz Gmata
(1964 - 1976)
- Fritz Gmata
- Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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