Maria Koppenhöfer
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 .
Filmography
- 1931: Opernredoute (Direction: Max Neufeld )
- 1931: 24 hours from the life of a woman ( Robert Land )
- 1932: Eerie Tales ( Richard Oswald )
- 1932: Rosemary in Luck ( Richard Löwenbein ) (short film)
- 1932: The child's first right ( Fritz Wendhausen )
- 1933: A Song for You ( Joe May )
- 1933: Refugees ( Gustav Ucicky )
- 1934: This is how a love ended ( Karl Hartl )
- 1935: Hangover lamp ( Veit Harlan )
- 1935: The girl Johanna
- 1935: Frisian distress ( Willi Krause )
- 1936: The Robbery of the Sabine Women ( Robert A. Stemmle )
- 1936: The girl Johanna ( Gustav Ucicky )
- 1936: final chord
- 1937: The Ruler ( Veit Harlan )
- 1937: Thunderstorm flight to Claudia ( Erich Waschneck )
- 1937: The mountain is calling ( Luis Trenker )
- 1937: Shots in cabin 7 ( Carl Boese )
- 1938: The small and the big love
- 1938: The Clown ( Kurt Rupli ) (short film)
- 1938: Andalusian Nights ( Herbert Maisch )
- 1938: What to do, Sibylle? ( Peter Paul Brauer )
- 1938: Shadows over St. Pauli ( Fritz Kirchhoff )
- 1938: Maja between two marriages ( Fritz Kirchhoff )
- 1938: A woman comes to the tropics ( Harald Paulsen )
- 1938: Anna Favetti ( Erich Waschneck )
- 1939: Midsummer bonfire ( Arthur Maria Rabenalt )
- 1939: The way to Isabel ( Erich Engel )
- 1940: The Queen's Heart ( Carl Froelich )
- 1940: Weather lights around Barbara ( Werner Klingler )
- 1940–44: Lowlands ( Leni Riefenstahl )
- 1940: Kora Terry ( Georg Jacoby )
- 1940: Bismarck ( Wolfgang Liebeneiner )
- 1940: Superstition ( Walther Ruttmann ) (short documentary film)
- 1942: The Rainer case ( Paul Verhoeven ´)
- 1942: Between Night and Morning ( Alfred Braun )
- 1943: When the Sun Shines Again ( Boleslaw Barlog )
- 1943: At that time in my time ( Boleslaw Barlog )
- 1943: a man with principles? ( Géza from Bolváry )
- 1945: The tavern for eternal love (unfinished) ( Alfred Weidenmann )
- 1945: The Puppeteer (unfinished) ( Alfred Braun )
- 1950: You Are No More ( Werner Malbran ) (Documentary)
literature
- Rolf Badenhausen : Koppenhöfer, Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 576 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Maria Koppenhöfer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maria Koppenhöfer at filmportal.de
- Pictures by Maria Koppenhöfer In: Virtual History
- Maria Koppenhöfer Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
personal data | |
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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 |