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Known as "Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella":
The actor Rolf Hoppe is dead
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Dresden At his 85th birthday, Rolf Hoppe said that he had a good life – and that he was not afraid of death. Now, the actor, who has played more than 400 roles and had his own theater, has died.
Many knew him in "Three Nuts for Cinderella", but Rolf Hoppe has filled more than 400 film and theater roles – the actor died at the age of 87. He was asleep Wednesday after a fulfilling life in the circle of his family, announced Thursday the family. Last year, Hoppe won several awards – the Märchenfilmfestival Award for his work at Annaberg-Buchholz and the Ball of the Semper Opera Dresden.
"I especially like small roles," Hoppe said about three years ago in an interview shortly before his 85th birthday. "The most important thing is a good house." Hoppe was smoking his pipe – the doctor had prescribed it in the 1940s, instead of cigarettes.
Hoppe has not retired in recent years: "I like to work, it's also a good job," he said. Only with his strength he had to be more economical. One of his projects: his own theater. Already in 1995, the actor had bought a farm in the suburbs of Dresden and founded the Hoftheater Dresden with friends, according to the theater's website. But in recent years, he was only a spectator.
His "Spielwut" Hoppe lived for the first time in an amateur theater troupe in his hometown, Ellrich, on the southern outskirts of Harz. At that time, the Thuringian earned his money as a coachman and a baker. His general Göring as Klaus Maria Brandauer's opponent in István Szabó, during the award-winning shooting of the novel "Mephisto" by Klaus Mann, made him internationally known in 1980. Also father of the pianist Clara Schumann in the Peter Schamoni's "Spring Symphony", Hoppe was world-clbad. At the Salzburg Festival, he was several times Mammon in "Everyman".
Since 1963, Hoppe has completed more than 400 film and theater roles and has shaped almost every clbadic and comic figure in the world's theatrical literature. He never succumbed to the temptation to turn his back on the GDR when he was touring abroad. And he also remained in demand in the new film Germany, played in "The Children of Bronsteins", "Schtonk!" And "Mario and the magician".
In just over 50 years of career, there were more than two white spots: "I would never play a child murderer," said the actor once, long regarded as a "bad guy". The other exception is rather unintentional: a love role has never been offered. "A fat man can also love." "I have a good life." He had no fear of death, he only wanted a tolerable transition. "When it's time, then it's time."
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