Personal Info
Margit Carstensen
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
as Self
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
as Self (archive footage)
Finsterworld
as Frau Sandberg
Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir
Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
Mister Karl
as Self
Hands off Mississippi
as Frau Strietzel
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
as Linda Barnes
Agnes and His Brothers
as Roxy
TV Shows
Anwalt Abel
as Frau Nussbauer · 1 ep.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Terah · 1 ep.
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self · 1 ep.
Derrick
as Frau Hauser · 1 ep.
World on a Wire
as Maya Schmidt-Genter · 2 ep.
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Erste Hausfrau · 1 ep.
Scene of the Crime
as Margarethe · 1 ep.
Vorsicht Falle!
1 ep.
German Film Award
as Self · 1 ep.