Margit Carstensen

Actor

Born: February 29, 1940
Died: June 1, 2023 (age 83)
From: 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…

Filmography (41)

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
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
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia (2002)
Die Leserin
Manila (2000)
Regine Gorler
John Gabriel Borkman
John Gabriel Borkman (2000)
Gunhild
Sonnenallee (1999)
Director
Rider of the Flames (1998)
Sinclair's mother
Gesche's Poison
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
La moitié de l'amour (1985)
Ivy
Angry Harvest (1985)
Eugenia
The Roaring Fifties (1983)
Sekretärin
Liebeskonzil (1982)
Staatsanwältin
Possession (1981)
Margit Gluckmeister
The Third Generation (1979)
Petra Vielhaber
Spiel der Verlierer
Spiel der Verlierer (1978)
Frl. Rosner
Women in New York (1977)
Sylvia Fowler
Adolf and Marlene (1977)
Marlene Dietrich
Chinese Roulette (1977)
Ariane Christ