Margit Carstensen
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday29 February 1940
Died1 June 2023 (age 83)
Place of birthKiel, Germany
Known credits50
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 he…
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
2015 · Self
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Finsterworld
2013 · Frau Sandberg
Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
2009
Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir
2009
Mister Karl
2008 · Self
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
2007 · Linda Barnes
Hands off Mississippi
2007 · Frau Strietzel
Agnes and His Brothers
2004 · Roxy
Shattered Glass
2002 · Käthe
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia
2002 · Die Leserin
Manila
2000 · Regine Gorler
John Gabriel Borkman
2000 · Gunhild
Sonnenallee
1999 · Director
Rider of the Flames
1998 · Sinclair's mother
Gesche's Poison
1998 · Mutter Timm
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997 · Self
Terror 2000
1993 · Margret
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
1989 · Martha Goebbels
Anwalt Abel
1988 · Frau Nussbauer
La moitié de l'amour
1985 · Ivy
Angry Harvest
1985 · Eugenia
The Roaring Fifties
1983 · Sekretärin
Liebeskonzil
1982 · Staatsanwältin
Possession
1981 · Margit Gluckmeister
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980 · Sekretärin
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980 · Terah
Bavarian Film Awards
1979 · Self
The Third Generation
1979 · Petra Vielhaber
Spiel der Verlierer
1978 · Frl. Rosner
Women in New York
1977 · Sylvia Fowler
Adolf and Marlene
1977 · Marlene Dietrich
Chinese Roulette
1977 · Ariane Christ
Fear of Fear
1976 · Margot
Satan’s Brew
1976 · Andree
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975 · Frau Thälmann
Derrick
1974 · Frau Hauser
Martha
1974 · Martha
Nora Helmer
1974 · Nora Helmer
World on a Wire
1973 · Maya Schmidt-Genter
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973 · Frau Lindner
Bremen Freedom
1972 · Geesche Gottfried
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
1972 · Erste Hausfrau
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972 · Petra von Kant
The Ancestress
1971 · Berta
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Margarethe
The Niklashausen Journey
1970 · Margarete
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