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Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen

Actor · Born 1940-02-29 · Kiel, Germany

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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 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 Fassbinder. She then worked under his direction in a comedy by the 18th-century Venetian Carlo Goldoni, The Coffee Shop (which was recorded for television in 1970), bringing her national attention in West Germany. She subsequently played the role of serial murderess Geesche Gottfried in the premiere of Fassbinder's own play Bremen Freedom (also televised, in 1972), and then in the title role of his Henrik Ibsen adaptation Nora Helmer (televised in 1974) derived from A Doll's House. Outside of theatre, Ca…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Possession (1981) — Margit Gluckmeister
  2. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) — Petra von Kant
  3. Sonnenallee (1999) — Director
  4. Scene of the Crime (1970) — Margarethe
  5. Chinese Roulette (1977) — Ariane Christ
  6. World on a Wire (1973) — Maya Schmidt-Genter
  7. Martha (1974) — Martha
  8. Finsterworld (2013) — Frau Sandberg
  9. The Third Generation (1979) — Petra Vielhaber
  10. Derrick (1974) — Frau Hauser
  11. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) — Sekretärin
  12. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) — Frau Lindner
  13. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) — Frau Thälmann
  14. Agnes and His Brothers (2004) — Roxy
  15. Satan’s Brew (1976) — Andree
  16. Fear of Fear (1975) — Margot
  17. Hands off Mississippi (2007) — Frau Strietzel
  18. The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997) — Self
  19. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972) — Erste Hausfrau
  20. Terror 2000 (1993) — Margret
  21. Angry Harvest (1985) — Eugenia
  22. 100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker (1989) — Martha Goebbels
  23. The Niklashausen Journey (1970) — Margarete
  24. Fassbinder (2015) — Self
  25. Nora Helmer (1974) — Nora Helmer
  26. It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007) — Linda Barnes
  27. Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015) — Self (archive footage)
  28. Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence (2020) — Self (archive footage)
  29. Bremen Freedom (1972) — Geesche Gottfried
  30. Shattered Glass (2002) — Käthe
  31. The Coffee House (1970) — Vittoria
  32. Manila (2000) — Regine Gorler
  33. Women in New York (1977) — Sylvia Fowler
  34. The Roaring Fifties (1983) — Sekretärin
  35. Adolf and Marlene (1977) — Marlene Dietrich
  36. Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia (2002) — Die Leserin
  37. La moitié de l'amour (1985) — Ivy
  38. The Ancestress (1971) — Berta
  39. Liebeskonzil (1982) — Staatsanwältin
  40. Gesche's Poison (1998) — Mutter Timm