Margit Carstensen
Born in Kiel, Germany — Feb 29 1940• Died Jun 01 2023
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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…
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Scene of the Crime
Margarethe
Derrick
Frau Hauser
German Film Award
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
Anwalt Abel
Frau Nussbauer
Possession
Margit Gluckmeister
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Sekretärin
World on a Wire
Maya Schmidt-Genter
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Erste Hausfrau
Manila
Regine Gorler
Sonnenallee
Director
Shattered Glass
Käthe
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Petra von Kant
Nora Helmer
Nora Helmer
Satan’s Brew
Andree
Fassbinder
Self
Chinese Roulette
Ariane Christ
The Third Generation
Petra Vielhaber
The Coffee House
Vittoria
Angry Harvest
Eugenia
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Self (archive footage)
Martha
Martha
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
Linda Barnes
Agnes and His Brothers
Roxy
Mister Karl
Self
Die wilden Fünfziger
Sekretärin
Terror 2000
Margret
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Frau Thälmann
Rider of the Flames
Sinclair's mother
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Self
Hands off Mississippi
Frau Strietzel
Fear of Fear
Margot
Finsterworld
Frau Sandberg
Adolf and Marlene
Marlene Dietrich
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
Martha Goebbels
Bremen Freedom
Geesche Gottfried
The Niklashausen Journey
Margarete
Liebeskonzil
Staatsanwältin
Spiel der Verlierer
Frl. Rosner
John Gabriel Borkman
Gunhild
Women in New York
Sylvia Fowler
Tenderness of the Wolves
Frau Lindner
Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia
Die Leserin
The Ancestress
Berta
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
La moitié de l'amour
Ivy
Gesche's Poison
Mutter Timm
Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir