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Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht

Known For Acting
Birthday Aug 27, 1945 (80)
Birthplace Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Aug 10, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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.

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A Whole Life

A Whole Life

2023

as Ahnl

Spanish Fly

Spanish Fly

1998

as Rosa

Left Luggage

Left Luggage

1998

as Mrs. Silberschmidt

All Men Are Mortal

All Men Are Mortal

1995

as Annie

Erotique

Erotique

1994

as Hilde (segment 'Taboo Parlor')

Mr. Bluesman

Mr. Bluesman

1993

as Emma

Dust Devil

Dust Devil

1992

as Dr. Leidzinger

Rosalie Goes Shopping

Rosalie Goes Shopping

1989

as Rosalie Greenspace

The War of the Roses

The War of the Roses

1989

as Susan

Moon Over Parador

Moon Over Parador

1988

as Magda

Bagdad Cafe

Bagdad Cafe

1987

as Jasmin Münchgstettner

C.O.D.

C.O.D.

1981

as Freda (as Barbara Hermani)

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Television Credits

SOKO München

as Frieda

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Jan 02, 1978

Sans famille

as Mère Barberin

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Dec 18, 2000

Bier Royal

as Rosa Seidl

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 28, 2019

Inspector Rex

as Tanja Kraus

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 10, 1994

Café Meineid

as Anna Liebl

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 06, 1990

Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt

as Eva

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 02, 1997

Anderland

as Verkäuferin

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 04, 1980

Das Traumschiff

as Sister Magdalena

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 22, 1981

NDR Talk Show

as Self

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Feb 09, 1979

DAS!

as Self

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jan 02, 1991

Volle Kanne

as Self

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Aug 30, 1999

ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 02, 1989

Stars in der Manege

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Apr 11, 1959

Kölner Treff

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 25, 1976

Alpha Forum

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 07, 1998

Beckmann

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 25, 1999

Riverboat

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 03, 1992

Zeil um Zehn

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 02, 1990

Unter 4 Augen

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 20, 2004

Heut' abend

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 03, 1980

alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 27, 1994

Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 09, 2006

Wetten, dass..?

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 14, 1981

Blam!

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1985

Inkas Küche

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 05, 2016

München Grill

as herself

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 20, 2018

Leute heute

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 23, 1997

Museums-Check mit Markus Brock

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 30, 2010

Deutscher Filmpreis

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1951

Bambi Awards

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1948

Der Sonntags-Stammtisch

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 14, 2007

Menschen bei Maischberger

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 02, 2003

Menschen der Woche

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 2000

Tietjen und Bommes

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 23, 1997

Boulevard Bio

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 06, 1991

Was glaubt

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 06, 2012

MDR um 4

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 06, 2014

Wortwechsel

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 08, 1982

Brisant

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 03, 1994

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