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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 Fassbinder. She then worked under his direction in a comedy by the 18th-century Venetian Carlo Goldoni, The Coffee Shop (which was recorded for television in 1970), bringing her national attention in West Germany. She subsequently played the role of serial murderess Geesche Gottfried in the premiere of Fassbinder's own play Bremen Freedom (also televised, in 1972), and then in the title role of his Henrik Ibsen adaptation Nora Helmer (televised in 1974) derived from A Doll's House. Outside of theatre, Carstensen played leading roles in the Fassbinder films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), her best-known role for him; Martha (1974), analysing a traditional marriage in a contemporary setting; Fear of Fear (1975); Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975); Satan's Brew (1976); Chinese Roulette (1976) and Women in New York (1977). She also appeared in episodes of two Fassbinder television productions: Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972), and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). From 1973 to 1976, Carstensen held a steady acting engagement in Darmstadt. In 1977, she moved to West Berlin where she performed on the highly regarded Staatliche Schauspielbühnen. In 1982, she moved to Stuttgart in order to work with director Hansgünther Heyme, where she appeared in a series of plays directed by him. During this time, Carstensen also worked in international film productions, such as Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981) and Agnieszka Holland's Angry Harvest (1985); the latter was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. By the late 1980s, she had developed ongoing working relationships with German directors Werner Schroeter, Christoph Schlingensief, and Leander Haußmann. For the 2003–04 season, Carstensen appeared in the Vienna Burgtheater, in the premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's play Bambiland under the direction of Schlingensief. During the 2007–08 season Carstensen assisted with the Austrian-German TV documentary Mr. Karl – A Person for People, directed by Kurt Mayer. In 2016, she was still on television, appearing in the long-running series Tatort. Carstensen received many awards in her career. Among these were the 1973 German Film Awards (Gold), for her acting in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and the 2002 Bavarian Film Award, for her acting in Scherbentanz. In 1972 she was chosen by the German Film Critics Guild as Best Actress of the Year. In 2019, she was awarded the Götz-George-Preis for her life's work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margit Carstensen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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

Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera

Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir
Mister Karl
as Self

It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
as Linda Barnes

Hands off Mississippi
as Frau Strietzel

Agnes and His Brothers
as Roxy

Shattered Glass
as Käthe
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia
as Die Leserin

Manila
as Regine Gorler
John Gabriel Borkman
as Gunhild

Sonnenallee
as Director

Rider of the Flames
as Sinclair's mother
Gesche's Poison
as Mutter Timm

The 120 Days of Bottrop
as Self

Terror 2000
as Margret

100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
as Martha Goebbels
Anwalt Abel
as Frau Nussbauer

La moitié de l'amour
as Ivy

Angry Harvest
as Eugenia

The Roaring Fifties
as Sekretärin

Liebeskonzil
as Staatsanwältin

Possession
as Margit Gluckmeister

Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Sekretärin
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self

The Third Generation
as Petra Vielhaber
Spiel der Verlierer
as Frl. Rosner

Women in New York
as Sylvia Fowler

Adolf and Marlene
as Marlene Dietrich

Chinese Roulette
as Ariane Christ

Satan’s Brew
as Andree

Fear of Fear
as Margot

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Frau Thälmann

Derrick
as Frau Hauser

Martha
as Martha

Nora Helmer
as Nora Helmer

World on a Wire
as Maya Schmidt-Genter

Tenderness of the Wolves
as Frau Lindner

Bremen Freedom
as Geesche Gottfried

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Erste Hausfrau

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
as Petra von Kant

The Ancestress
as Berta

Scene of the Crime
as Margarethe

The Niklashausen Journey
as Margarete

The Coffee House
as Vittoria
Vorsicht Falle!
German Film Award
as Self