Trivia

Mother of Nina Hoger

Her father was an actor at the Ohnsorg Theatre in Hamburg.

Started her career on stage in 1958 and attended lessons by Lee Strasberg.

Ranked #1 in a survey by "TV Today" searching the "most credible TV investigator" (2005).

Had a 7 year relationship with the pianist Siegfried Gerlich.

Associated with the films of Alexander Kluge and Peter Zadek.

Studied acting at the Hamburg School for Music and Performing Arts under Eduard Marks, on stage from the age of six. Later studied acting with Lee Strasberg in New York.

Her father was an actor and coordinator at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater.

Best known to TV audiences as Detective Chief Inspector Bella Block (1994-2018) and as private detective Charlotte Burg in Die Drei (1996-97).

From the 80s, also active as a theatrical director.

Prolific and versatile character actress, voted 'Actress of the Year" in 1975 by the German publication "Theater heute".

At the age of 14 she got her first major role at her father's theater, and a year later she decided to become an actress. In an interview, Hoger described his often-mentioned first stage appearance at the age of five as a "rumor.".

She has appeared in numerous German films, television programs, and stage productions for the last five decades.

She was a German actress and director.

Hannelore Hoger studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

In 2003, Hoger also took part in an awareness campaign by the German Cancer Aid Foundation for early mammography screening against breast cancer.

From 1961 she appeared on stage in Ulm, Bremen, Stuttgart, Cologne and Berlin, and from 1981 to 1985 in Hamburg. There her collaboration with Augusto Fernandes became a formative experience.

She took lessons from Lee Strasberg several times.

Hannelore Hoger was in a relationship with the writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge for many years and with the philosopher, writer and pianist Siegfried Gerlich from 1999 to 2006.

She repeatedly worked with the director and producer Alexander Kluge, whose experimental film aesthetics were influenced by the writings of the Frankfurt School as in "Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos" (1968), "Der große Verhau" (1970), "Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte "(1972), "Deutschland im Herbst" (1977), "Die Patriotin" (1979) and "Die Macht der Gefühle" (1983).

From 1990 onwards, together with the actor Dietmar Mues and the pianist and singer Joachim Kuntzsch, she played the program Outside Red and Inside... A Tucholsky Evening at irregular intervals in various cities, in which three texts by the satirist Kurt Tucholsky were dramatized.

She became particularly known for her work under director Kurt Hübner at the Ulmer Theater and the Bremen Theater am Goetheplatz. Her collaboration with director Peter Zadek should also be highlighted. With him she went to the Bochum Schauspielhaus in 1972.

Hoger put her popularity at the service of social causes, such as the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth campaign: "Hinsehen. Handeln. Helfen!"( "Look. Act. Help!") against sexual violence against children from April 2004 to February 2005.

Hoger also appeared in numerous films, including: In 1997 in Helmut Dietl's " Rossini - oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief (Rossini - or the murderous question of who slept with whom), in which she showed her comedic talent as gossip reporter Charlotte alongside Mario Adorf.

Since summer 2005, Hoger and her daughter, Nina Hoger, have performed with the Ensemble Noisten (= ensemble founded in 1999 in North Rhine-Westphalia by clarinetist Reinald Noisten).