Margit Carstensen
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Acting Credits
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 fo...
Known For
Filmography
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
2015
as Self
Finsterworld
2013
as Frau Sandberg
Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir
2009
Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
2009
Mister Karl
2008
as Self
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
2007
as Linda Barnes
Hands off Mississippi
2007
as Frau Strietzel
Agnes and His Brothers
2004
as Roxy
Shattered Glass
2002
as Käthe
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia
2002
as Die Leserin
Manila
2000
as Regine Gorler
John Gabriel Borkman
2000
as Gunhild
Sonnenallee
1999
as Director
Gesche's Poison
1998
as Mutter Timm
Rider of the Flames
1998
as Sinclair's mother
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
as Self
Terror 2000
1993
as Margret
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
1989
as Martha Goebbels
Anwalt Abel
1988
as Frau Nussbauer
La moitié de l'amour
1985
as Ivy
Angry Harvest
1985
as Eugenia
The Roaring Fifties
1983
as Sekretärin
Liebeskonzil
1982
as Staatsanwältin
Possession
1981
as Margit Gluckmeister
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
as Sekretärin
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
as Terah
The Third Generation
1979
as Petra Vielhaber
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
Spiel der Verlierer
1978
as Frl. Rosner
Chinese Roulette
1977
as Ariane Christ
Women in New York
1977
as Sylvia Fowler
Adolf and Marlene
1977
as Marlene Dietrich
Satan’s Brew
1976
as Andree
Fear of Fear
1976
as Margot
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975
as Frau Thälmann
Martha
1974
as Martha
Nora Helmer
1974
as Nora Helmer
Derrick
1974
as Frau Hauser
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973
as Frau Lindner
World on a Wire
1973
as Maya Schmidt-Genter
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972
as Petra von Kant
Bremen Freedom
1972
as Geesche Gottfried
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
1972
as Erste Hausfrau
The Ancestress
1971
as Berta
The Coffee House
1970
as Vittoria
The Niklashausen Journey
1970
as Margarete
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Margarethe
Vorsicht Falle!
1964
German Film Award
1951
as Self