Margit Carstensen

Personal Info

Birthday

February 29, 1940

Day of Death

2023-06-01

(83 years old)

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.

Known For

Scene of the Crime

Derrick

Possession

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Anwalt Abel

World on a Wire

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Chinese Roulette

Filmography

2020
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Fassbinder
as Self
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Finsterworld
as Frau Sandberg
2008
Mister Karl
as Self
2007
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
as Linda Barnes
Hands off Mississippi
as Frau Strietzel
2004
Agnes and His Brothers
as Roxy
2002
Shattered Glass
as Käthe
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia
as Die Leserin
2000
Manila
as Regine Gorler
John Gabriel Borkman
as Gunhild
1999
Sonnenallee
as Director
1998
Rider of the Flames
as Sinclair's mother
Gesche's Poison
as Mutter Timm
1997
The 120 Days of Bottrop
as Self
1993
Terror 2000
as Margret
1989
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
as Martha Goebbels
1985
La moitié de l'amour
as Ivy
Angry Harvest
as Eugenia
1983
Die wilden Fünfziger
as Sekretärin
1982
Liebeskonzil
as Staatsanwältin
1981
Possession
as Margit Gluckmeister
1979
The Third Generation
as Petra Vielhaber
1978
Spiel der Verlierer
as Frl. Rosner
1977
Women in New York
as Sylvia Fowler
Adolf and Marlene
as Marlene
Chinese Roulette
as Ariane Christ
1976
Satan’s Brew
as Andree
1975
Fear of Fear
as Margot
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Frau Thälmann
1974
Martha
as Martha
Nora Helmer
as Nora Helmer
1973
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Frau Lindner
1972
Bremen Freedom
as Geesche Gottfried
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
as Petra von Kant
1971
The Ancestress
as Berta
1970
The Niklashausen Journey
as Margarete
The Coffee House
as Vittoria