Rolf Hoppe

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Rolf Hoppe (born December 6, 1930 in Ellrich , Grafschaft Hohenstein district ; † November 14, 2018 in Dresden ) was a German actor . He played in more than 400 films and was best known to the audience in his roles as the villain in DEFA Indian films and as king in the fairy tale film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella (1973). He received international attention as "Prime Minister" in the film drama Mephisto (1981).

Life

Origin and first years

Rolf Hoppe was born in 1930 in the small town of Ellrich near Nordhausen on the southern edge of the Harz Mountains and was the only son of the master baker Hermann Hoppe. He represented his father in the bakery at the end of the Second World War and was supposed to continue the Schwarz-Weiss & Feinbäckerei August Hoppe, which had existed since 1829. After finishing elementary school , he trained as a baker and also worked as a coachman from 1945 to 1948 . In 1945 he was ordered by the US Army to clean up the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp .

1946/47 Hoppe worked as an actor and director at the amateur theater in Ellrich. His first stage role was the title role in the play Professor Mamlock . After studying acting at the State Conservatory in Erfurt from 1949 to 1951, he was initially a zoo keeper at the Eros circus due to acute voice problems . In the 1950/51 season he was engaged at the Erfurt Municipal Theaters . The training of his voice at the Institut für Sprachkunde in Halle (Saale) was followed by an engagement at the theater of the young guard in Halle in the season 1952/53 .

Theater career

Hoppe's other stage stations were the Greifswald Theater (1953/54; according to other sources, already in the 1952/53 season), the Young World Theater in Leipzig (1954–1956) and the Gera Theater (1955 / 56–1961). From 1961 he worked at the Staatstheater Dresden , then between 1970 and 1975 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and from 1975 again at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. At the Salzburg Festival he appeared from 1983 to 1989 in the role of "Mammon" in Jedermann (director: Ernst Haeusserman ) with Klaus Maria Brandauer as partner in the title role. Hoppe also made guest appearances in Switzerland, Italy and China.

Hoppe's important theater roles included Galy Gay in Brecht's Mann ist Mann (season 1958/59), Flieger Sun in Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (season 1956/57, both in Gera), as well as the title role in King Lear in Dresden (as Takeover; production: Hans Dieter Mäde ), the village judge Adam in Der zerbrochne Krug (season 1968/69), the monastery brother in Nathan the Wise (season 1978/79), Dr. Schimmelpfennig in Before Sunrise (production: Hans Dieter Mäde), Torvald Helmer in Nora , Luka in Nachtasyl (season 1978/79) and the title role in The Conspiracy of Fiesco in Genoa (direction: Frank Beyer ).

In the 1977/78 season he took over the care of Orestes in Sophocles' Elektra at the Dresden State Theater (production: Klaus-Dieter Kirst ). He also played in pieces by Alexei Nikolajewitsch Arbusow (Sergej in Irkutsker Geschichte , Gera / Dresden), Joachim Knauth ( Heinrich VIII or Der Ketzerkönig in Gera), Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( Die Lästerschule , Dresden), Seán O'Casey ( Das Ende vom Lied ; Dresden, 1967/68 season), Helmut Sakowski ( Steine ​​im Weg , Dresden), Peter Hacks ( Senecas Tod , Dresden 1980/81 season) and Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1963 as Alfred Ill in The Visit of the Old Lady with Antonia Dietrich in the title role in the GDR first performance; season 1978/79 as Möbius in Die Physiker ).

Movie and TV

In 1963 he made his film debut in Konrad Petzold's Now and in the Hour of My Death in a smaller role as a porter . This was followed by numerous film and television roles in the GDR, including in the film drama Karla from 1965 as Eiffler's teacher, in Konrad Wolf's Ich war Nineteen (1968) as stage major Behring and in the historical comedy Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (1968) as police director .

In the DEFA Indian film Spur des Falken (1968) and its sequel White Wolves (1969) he took on the role of the villain James Bashan. 1972 played in the DEFA black and white film Leichensache Zernik - still quite obese - a little Berlin crook. In 1973 he was seen in the role of Captain Burton in Apache , which continued with Ulzana in 1975 . In Václav Vorlíček's fairy tale film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella (1973), he played the king at the side of Karin Lesch . The following year he took on another role in a fairy tale film; he played the eponymous puppeteer and inventor in Hans Röckle und der Teufel .

Internationally known Hoppe was founded in 1981 by his portrayal of Nazi - Prime Minister of Prussia Hermann Goering in the after Klaus Mann resulting novel feature film Mephisto by Istvan Szabo , of the 1982 Oscar for best foreign language film received. Because of this role he was cast in Peter Schamoni's feature film Spring Symphony (1983), where he played the musician and music teacher Friedrich Wieck and the father of Clara Schumann . In 1984 he starred alongside Paulus Manker in Michael Haneke's television film Wer war Edgar Allan? . In the Friedrich Hölderlin film adaptation of Half of Life (1985) he played the writer Wilhelm Heinse . In the six-part television film Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria (1985/1987) he took on the role of August III. , the son of Augustus the Strong . In 1989 he played a felon with Götz George and Otto Sander in Der Bruch .

Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall , Hoppe was able to further establish himself as an actor. In 1992 he played the role of the factory owner and former Nazi Karl Lentz in the satirical film Schtonk! (1992). In 1993 he was the prefect Angiolieri in Mario and the Magician , directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer . In the Austro-German feature film Comedian Harmonists (1997) he played the National Socialist politician Julius Streicher . Hoppe played Felix Malroux in Volker Schlöndorff's US-German thriller Palmetto - Dumbs Don't Die Out (1998). In Rolf Losansky's fairy tale adaptation, Hans im Glück (1999), he took on the role of the merchant and rider, who Hans would like to swap his fast horse “Sausewind” for the gold lump of the miller's apprentice. In the television melodrama Am Ende Siegt die Liebe (2000) he was seen in the role of Max Sander. In the comedy film Alles auf Zucker! (2004) he played the rabbi Ginsberg. In the crime film series Commissario Laurenti (2007/08) he played the forensic doctor Galvano. In 2012 he was cast by Toke Constantin Hebbeln in his melodramatic film We wanted to go to the sea , where he played Colonel Seler, the Stasi . In the Ken Follett film adaptation of ZDF The Pillars of Power , which came on television in 2016, he took on the role of the head of the family and patriarch Seth Pilaster.

From 1994 to 2003 he worked in several films in the Tatort television series . In Tatort: ​​The Black Angel (1994) he played Richard Tauber, in Tatort: ​​The Specialist (1996) he took over the role of Commissioner Karl Ammond, in Tatort: ​​Parteifreunde (1996) he was the former party state chairman Eberhard Sudhoff, im Tatort: ​​Sleepless Nights (1996) he played the role of Walter Severing, in Tatort: ​​Tödlicher Galopp (1997) he played Kasunke, a horse connoisseur and regular visitor to the racecourse and in his last Tatort The Black Troll (2003) he was the family doctor Dr. Paul Knödgen. He also had episode roles in Commissioner Rex , The Dream Ship , The Crimes of Professor Capellari , The Bull of Tölz , The Last Witness , SOKO Kitzbühel and Coast Guard .

In addition to numerous appearances in feature films and television productions, Hoppe also acted as a narrator in children's radio plays, such as the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland , as a narrator in Little Brother and Sister and as the story-telling Wind in Der Fischer und seine Frau together with Kurt Böwe . In 2000 he was voted one of the “100 Dresden residents of the 20th century” by the daily newspaper Dresdner Latest Nachrichten .

Further theater activities

Hoppe was the principal of the Hoftheater Dresden , a chamber theater in a former farm in Dresden-Weißig . In 1995 he founded an association with the vision of such a theater, bought and donated the farm to the association. The schedule is based on Hoppe's artistic standards.

For more than two decades, Hoppe has been culturally involved in a variety of ways with his private theater at Weesenstein Castle . There he performed, for example, his musical-literary series Dresdner Dreikänge and read fairy tales, ballads and ghost stories. In November 2006, Hoppe and the singer Heinz Rudolf Kunze performed their joint program Sachsophonie there . They presented personal favorite texts from various authors from Saxony and Lower Saxony and also sang.

Private

Hoppe was married and last lived in Dresden-Weißig . His daughters Christine Hoppe and Josephine Hoppe are also actresses. His grandson Oscar Hoppe also took this career path.

Rolf Hoppe died in November 2018 at the age of 87. He was buried in the Dresden forest cemetery Weißer Hirsch .

Filmography

Theater (selection)

Radio plays

Discography

  • 2010: Hoppe speaks beautiful spring songs
  • 2011: Dieter Mann, Rolf Hoppe, Christine Hoppe - Das Paselwitz Diary (Telepool)

Awards

Hoppe has won several prizes in the course of his career, including the fairy tale film festival prize for his life's work in Annaberg-Buchholz and the Order of the Dresden Semper Opera Ball .

exhibition

  • Rolf Hoppe. An acting life. Exhibition for the 85th birthday from November 1, 2015 to May 1, 2016 at Weesenstein Castle

literature

Web links

Commons : Rolf Hoppe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZEIT ONLINE: Actor: Rolf Hoppe is dead . In: The time . November 15, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 5, 2019]).
  2. ↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .
  3. ↑ http://stipvisiten.de/2015/11/ein-symbiotisches-gespann/ - accessed on November 15, 2018
  4. ^ Andreas Neubauer; Klaus-Dieter Wintermann: Hoppe's dream - the legendary Weesenstein. Dresden 1998, ISBN 3-925001-19-0
  5. ↑ https://www.nmz.de/media/video/eine-sachsophonie-teil-3-rolf-hoppe-und-heinz-rudolf-kunze - accessed on November 15, 2018
  6. ↑ https://www.nmz.de/media/video/eine-sachsophonie-teil-3-rolf-hoppe-und-heinz-rudolf-kunze - accessed on November 15, 2018
  7. ↑ Video recording in six episodes - accessed on November 19, 2018
  8. ↑ Oscar Hoppe at Crew United . Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  9. ^ The Dresden actor Rolf Hoppe is dead. In: Dresdner Latest News. November 15, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  10. ^ The grave of Rolf Hoppe. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on May 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Spring songs on Frühlingslieder.com (accessed June 19, 2010)
  12. ↑ mdr.de: Actor Rolf Hoppe died | MDR.DE. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Torsten Klaus: Rolf Hoppe and shot AG receive the Dresden Art Prize and the 2007 Dresden Prize . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung - Edition: Dresdner Latest News . February 20, 2007, p. 9 .
  14. ^ Dpa report: Dresdner Rolf Hoppe receives Federal Cross of Merit. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung - lvz.de. March 12, 2010, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  15. ↑ PAULA 2015. (No longer available online.) Www.progress-film.de, archived from the original on February 9, 2015 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 .
  16. ↑ http://stipvisiten.de/2015/11/ein-symbiotisches-gespann/ - accessed on November 15, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hoppe, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ellrich , Harz
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2018
Place of death Dresden