Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht is a German actress who emerged from Munich's avant-garde theater and cabaret scene, where she produced and performed revues with Opera Curiosa and was known as the mother of that subculture. She had worked as a medical lab assistant and a magazine assistant editor before entering show business. Percy Adlon saw her in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder and cast her in the television special Herr Kischott, then a small role in The Swing and the lead in Sugarbaby, an overweight mortician smitten with a subway conductor. She co-starred in Bagdad Café in 1987, and American directors tailored roles for her in Moon over Parador (1988) and The War of the Roses (1989). Back in German productions, she played a timid maid in Martha and I, headlined Mona Must Die, and had supporting parts in The Ogre (1996) and Left Luggage (1998). She served on the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival in 1997.