Maria Koppenhöfer

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Maria Johanna Julia Koppenhöfer (born December 11, 1901 in Stuttgart , † November 29, 1948 in Heidelberg ) was a German actress .

Life

The daughter of a Stuttgart hotel owner, who wanted to be an actress as a child, received her training from actress Emmy Remolt-Jessen . After her Stuttgart stage debut and engagements in Munich and Cologne , she came to the Deutsche Theater Berlin in 1925 and to the Prussian State Theater Berlin in 1926 .

Since the early days of the sound film, Maria Koppenhöfer has often appeared in front of the camera in prominent supporting roles. While she preferred to give classic female characters on stage, she was committed to the mother's profession early on in the National Socialist cinema ( Der Raub der Sabinerinnen , 1935/1936; Anna Favetti , 1938; Weather lights around Barbara , 1940/1941; When the sun shines again , 1942 / 1943; The tavern for eternal love , 1944/1945). But even here she found enough space for her nuanced game, and she portrayed soft, soulful characters just as convincingly as strict and stately ones. Since the mid-1930s, she has repeatedly embodied queens and women of the upper class ( Der Herrscher , 1936/1937; Die kleine und die Große Liebe , 1937/1938; The Queen's Heart , 1939/1940; Bismarck , 1940). The spectrum of their possibilities of expression extended to the vicious or the witch-like demonic ( Andalusian Nights , 1936/1937; St. John's Fire , 1939; The Queen's Heart , 1939/1940). On the other hand, she only portrayed younger women in isolated cases ( Tiefland , 1940–1944).

In 1943 Maria Koppenhöfer was appointed state actress . The end of the Second World War ended her film career. Until shortly before her cancer death, however, she still worked as a stage actress in Munich and Frankfurt am Main .

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SURNAME Koppenhöfer, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koppenhöfer, Maria Johanna Julia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1948
Place of death Heidelberg