- Born
- Height5′ 6¼″ (1.68 m)
- Shortly after being discovered by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of "Adele Spitzeder", Marianne Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho in the Director's TV special Herr Kischott (1980), a spin on "Don Quixote". Eventually, the actress became a muse (for lack of better term) to Adlon and consecutively starred in leading roles in several of the Director's films, one of which garnered Sägebrecht commercial success: the performance as Jasmin Münchgstettner, a woman who mysteriously appears just to bring luminosity to the old, beaten down, and spiritually deprived Bagdad Café in, Bagdad Cafe (1987), earned her a German Film Award.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseFritz(1964 - 1976) (divorced, 1 child)
- Her smile
- Bavarian accent
- Turned down roles in Mel Brooks Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog (1991), and Peter Hyams's End of Days (1999)(1999).
- Director Percy Adlon once called her "The Marlene Dietrich of Bavaria".
- While running "Mutti-Bräu", a bar and meeting place for artists, in the 1970s, she became "the mother of Munich's subculture" and founded her own theater group "Opera curiosa".
- One of Germany's most popular actresses.
- Wrote two books about her life, the first in 1994, and the second in 2007.
- "Nichts Menschliches ist mir fremd!" (means: "Nothing that is human is strange to me".)
- We Bavarians are to Germany what Indians are to the U.S.A.
- Bagdad Cafe (1988) - 40,000 DEM
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