Margit Carstensen
Birthday
1940/02/29
Day of death
2023/06/01 (83 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Kiel, Germany
Also know as
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Biography
Margit Carstensen (29 February 1940 – 1 June 2023) was a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Carstensen was born and raised in the northern German city of Kiel. Upon graduation from the local high school in 1958, she studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. This education led to her first stage appearances in Kleve, Heilbronn, Münster, and Braunschweig. In 1965, Carstensen began a fo...Read more
Acting
(1972) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
as Petra von Kant
(1974) Martha
as Martha
(2004) Agnes and His Brothers
as Roxy
(1981) Possession
as Margit Gluckmeister
(1977) Chinese Roulette
as Ariane Christ
(1975) Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Frau Thälmann
(1997) The 120 Days of Bottrop
as Self
(1976) Satan’s Brew
as Andree
(1975) Fear of Fear
as Margot
(2007) It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
as Linda Barnes
(1989) 100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
as Martha Goebbels
(1979) The Third Generation
as Petra Vielhaber
(1985) La moitié de l'amour
as Ivy
(1973) Tenderness of the Wolves
as Frau Lindner
(1992) Terror 2000
as Margret
(2013) Finsterworld
as Frau Sandberg
(1972) Bremen Freedom
as Geesche Gottfried
(1970) The Coffee House
as Vittoria
(2000) Manila
as Regine Gorler
(1971) The Ancestress
as Berta
(1985) Angry Harvest
as Eugenia
(1983) Die wilden Fünfziger
as Sekretärin
(2007) Hands off Mississippi
as Frau Strietzel
(1970) The Niklashausen Journey
as Margarete
(2008) Mister Karl
as Self
(1977) Women in New York
as Sylvia Fowler
(1977) Adolf and Marlene
as Marlene
(2002) Shattered Glass
as Käthe
(1982) Liebeskonzil
as Staatsanwältin
(2015) Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
as Self (archive footage)
(2015) Fassbinder
as Self
(1974) Nora Helmer
as Nora Helmer
(1998) Gesche's Poison
as Mutter Timm
(1999) Sonnenallee
as Director
(2000) John Gabriel Borkman
as Gunhild
(1998) Rider of the Flames
as Sinclair's mother
(2002) Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia
as Die Leserin
(1978) Spiel der Verlierer
as Frl. Rosner
(2009) Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir
as ---
(2020) Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
(2009) Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
as ---
(1988) Anwalt Abel
as Frau Nussbauer
(1974) Derrick
as Frau Hauser
(1970) Scene of the Crime
as Margarethe
(1951) Deutscher Filmpreis
as Self
(1979) Bavarian Film Award
as Self
(1964) Vorsicht Falle!
as ---
(1972) Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Erste Hausfrau
(1973) World on a Wire
as Maya Schmidt-Genter
(1980) Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Angel #1