Background
Hoppe was born as son of a master baker in Ellrich, Thuringia, Germany.
Hoppe was born as son of a master baker in Ellrich, Thuringia, Germany.
After his apprenticehip as a baker, he worked from 1945 to 1948, as a coachman. He then started an actors’ training in Erfurt and worked in the circus aeronautics He later engaged at Thalia Theater in Halle (Saale) and at the Young World Theatre in Leipzig.
He acted at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and the Salzburg Festival.
He was internationally active in Switzerland, Italy, and China. In the East German DEFA movies, Hoppe often played villains, e.g., in different Osterns.
Hoppe lives in Weißig in Dresden.
Sächsische Akademie der Künste.