
Known for
Acting
Born
February 29, 1940
Birthplace
Kiel, Germany
Died
June 1, 2023 (aged 83)
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 her work in the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, where she first met director Rainer Werner Fassbinde...
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2015
as Self
2015
as Self (archive footage)
2013
as Frau Sandberg
2009
2009
2008
as Self
2007
as Linda Barnes
2007
as Frau Strietzel
2004
as Roxy
2002
as Käthe
2002
as Die Leserin
2000
as Regine Gorler
2000
as Gunhild
1999
as Director
1998
as Sinclair's mother
1998
as Mutter Timm
1997
as Self
1993
as Margret
1989
as Martha Goebbels
1988
1985
as Ivy
1985
as Eugenia
1983
as Sekretärin
1982
as Staatsanwältin