Margit Carstensen
Acting
Born February 29, 1940 · Kiel, Germany
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…
Known For · 40 titles
Scene of the Crime
Derrick
German Film Award
Bavarian Film Awards
Possession
Vorsicht Falle!
Agnes and His Brothers
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Anwalt Abel
World on a Wire
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
The Coffee House
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Sonnenallee
Chinese Roulette
Satan’s Brew
Terror 2000
The Roaring Fifties
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Tenderness of the Wolves
Mister Karl
The Third Generation
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Martha
Shattered Glass
Finsterworld
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Manila
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
The Niklashausen Journey
Angry Harvest
Hands off Mississippi
Fear of Fear
Women in New York
Liebeskonzil
Bremen Freedom
Rider of the Flames
Fassbinder
Spiel der Verlierer