Margit Carstensen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-02-29 (83 years old)

Deathday

2023-06-01

Place of Birth

Kiel, Germany

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, wh...

Acting

1974

Martha

as Martha

1981

Possession

as Margit Gluckmeister

1977

Chinese Roulette

as Ariane Christ

1975

1976

1975

Fear of Fear

as Margot

1979

The Third Generation

as Petra Vielhaber

1973

1993

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

1985

Angry Harvest

as Eugenia

1983

Die wilden Fünfziger

as Sekretärin

2007

Hands off Mississippi

as Frau Strietzel

1970

2008

1977

Women in New York

as Sylvia Fowler

1977

2002

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

1998

Rider of the Flames

as Sinclair's mother

1978

Spiel der Verlierer

as Frl. Rosner

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