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Margit Carstensen
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 four-year engagement with the German Playhouse in Hamburg.
In 1969, she gained a local profile for her work in the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, where she first met director Rainer Werner... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence as Self (archive footage) | 2020-08-20 |
Fassbinder as Self | 2015-04-30 |
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands as Self (archive footage) | 2015-02-07 |
Finsterworld as Frau Sandberg | 2013-10-17 |
Mea Culpa - A ReadyMadeOpera | 2009-10-11 |
Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir | 2009-05-02 |
Mister Karl as Self | 2008-03-30 |
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. as Linda Barnes | 2007-11-21 |
Hands off Mississippi as Frau Strietzel | 2007-03-22 |
Agnes and His Brothers as Roxy | 2004-10-13 |
Shattered Glass as Käthe | 2002-10-31 |
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia as Die Leserin | 2002-04-11 |
Manila as Regine Gorler | 2000-06-29 |
John Gabriel Borkman as Gunhild | 2000-05-27 |
Sonnenallee as Director | 1999-10-07 |
Rider of the Flames as Sinclair's mother | 1998-05-26 |
Gesche's Poison as Mutter Timm | 1998-01-01 |
The 120 Days of Bottrop as Self | 1997-11-06 |
Terror 2000 as Margret | 1992-10-30 |
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker as Martha Goebbels | 1989-02-18 |
La moitié de l'amour as Ivy | 1985-08-01 |
Angry Harvest as Eugenia | 1985-02-20 |
Die wilden Fünfziger as Sekretärin | 1983-09-23 |
Liebeskonzil as Staatsanwältin | 1982-03-12 |
Possession as Margit Gluckmeister | 1981-05-27 |
The Third Generation as Petra Vielhaber | 1979-05-30 |
Spiel der Verlierer as Frl. Rosner | 1978-10-12 |
Women in New York as Sylvia Fowler | 1977-06-21 |
Adolf and Marlene as Marlene | 1977-03-15 |
Chinese Roulette as Ariane Christ | 1977-02-23 |
Satan’s Brew as Andree | 1976-10-07 |
Fear of Fear as Margot | 1975-07-08 |
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven as Frau Thälmann | 1975-07-01 |
Martha as Martha | 1974-05-28 |
Nora Helmer as Nora Helmer | 1974-02-03 |
Tenderness of the Wolves as Frau Lindner | 1973-07-12 |
Bremen Freedom as Geesche Gottfried | 1972-11-12 |
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant as Petra von Kant | 1972-10-05 |
The Ancestress as Berta | 1971-12-20 |
The Niklashausen Journey as Margarete | 1970-10-26 |
The Coffee House as Vittoria | 1970-05-18 |