Marianne Sägebrecht
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.
105 acting credits
Acting · 105
DAS!
1991
Volle Kanne
1999
Leute heute
1997
NDR Talk Show
1979
SOKO München
1978
Kölner Treff
1976
Riverboat
1992
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Bambi
1948
MDR um 4
2014
Das Traumschiff
1981
Beckmann
1999
Inspector Rex
1994
Alpha Forum
1998
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
German Film Award
1951
Menschen der Woche
2000
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
2007
Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!
2006
Brisant
1994
Boulevard Bio
1991
Wortwechsel
1982
Heut' abend
1980
Stars in the Ring
1959
Café Meineid
1990
The War of the Roses
1989
Zeil um Zehn
1990
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999
Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt
1997
Bagdad Cafe
1987
Il piccolo lord
1995
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
2010
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
2000
Was glaubt
2012
Anderland
1980
A Whole Life
2023
Erotique
1994
Sans famille
2000
Dust Devil
1992
Moon Over Parador
1988
Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
2016
The Ogre
1996
Unter 4 Augen
2004
München Grill
2018
Omamamia
2012
Bier Royal
2019
Blam!
1985
Without Family
2000
Soleil
1997
Spanish Fly
1998
Sugarbaby
1985
Inkas Küche
2016
The Circle
2014
Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
2018
All Men Are Mortal
1995
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
Pettson and Findus: A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship
2014
Schmucklos
2019
C.O.D.
1981
Rosalie Goes Shopping
1989
The Swing
1983
Left Luggage
1998
The Muckles - The Quest for a New Home
2022
Mr. Bluesman
1993
Mona Must Die
1994
Erik & Erika
2018
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
2012
The Milky Life
1993
Lorenz im Land der Lügner
1997
Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure
1987
Eine Frau nach Maß
1998
Luise knackt den Jackpot
1995
Immer Wirbel um Marie
2008
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
1984
And Suddenly Everything Was Different
1997
Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
2012
Ein irres Feeling
1984
Martha and I
1990
Silence
2020
Scheidung auf amerikanisch
2001
Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
1999
Marga Engel schlägt zurück
2001
Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
2007
Frau Holle
2008
Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
2004
Ganz unten, ganz oben
1999
Beauville
1995
Marga Engel kocht vor Wut
2003
So ein Schlamassel
2010
Großglocknerliebe
2004
One Day
1988
Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
2001
Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
1989
Santa's Secretary
1999
Bezaubernde Marie
2007
Der Werdenfelser Lumpazivagabundus
2014
Charlotte und ihre Männer
2005
Herz mit Löffel
1987
Am Ende siegt die Liebe
2000
Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
1994
Katrin und Wladimir
1996
Watzmann ermittelt · Die Tränen der Madonna
2026