Margit Carstensen
Actor
Born February 29, 1940 in Kiel, Germany
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.
Filmography
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
Self
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
Finsterworld
Frau Sandberg
Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
Linda Barnes
Hands off Mississippi
Frau Strietzel
Agnes and His Brothers
Roxy
Shattered Glass
Käthe
Manila
Regine Gorler
Sonnenallee
Director
Rider of the Flames
Sinclair's mother
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Self
Terror 2000
Margret
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
Martha Goebbels
La moitié de l'amour
Ivy
Angry Harvest
Eugenia
The Roaring Fifties
Sekretärin
Liebeskonzil
Staatsanwältin
Possession
Margit Gluckmeister
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Sekretärin
The Third Generation
Petra Vielhaber
Women in New York
Sylvia Fowler
Adolf and Marlene
Marlene Dietrich
Chinese Roulette
Ariane Christ
Satan’s Brew
Andree
Fear of Fear
Margot
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Frau Thälmann
Derrick
Frau Hauser
Martha
Martha
Nora Helmer
Nora Helmer
World on a Wire
Maya Schmidt-Genter
Tenderness of the Wolves
Frau Lindner
Bremen Freedom
Geesche Gottfried
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Erste Hausfrau
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Petra von Kant
The Ancestress
Berta
Scene of the Crime
Margarethe
The Niklashausen Journey
Margarete
The Coffee House
Vittoria