Marianne Sägebrecht (German: [ma.ËˆÊ i̯a.nÉ™ ˈzÉ›Ë É¡É™ËŒbÊ É›Ã§t]
(listen); 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).
(listen); 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).
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