Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen (* February 29, 1940 in Kiel ) is a German theater and film actress. Awareness in the public, they became among other things for her roles in the productions of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Stage career

The daughter of a doctor spent her childhood and youth in her hometown. After high school she graduated from acting school in 1958 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. First stage engagements followed in Kleve, Heilbronn, Münster and Braunschweig. For a four-year activity, she moved in 1965 to the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg; there they took over, among other leading roles in plays by John Osborne and Lope de Vega. In 1969 she accepted a position at the Theater of the free Hanseatic city of Bremen, where she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Under his direction, created major theater and film productions that made known nationwide Margit Carstensen. She played the Vittoria Carlo Goldoni's comedy The Coffeehouse (1970 filmed ), the role of the series Geesche Gottfried in the world premiere of Fassbinder's own piece Bremen Freedom, and the title part in Ibsen adaptation Nora Helmer (1974 filmed ).

After working in Darmstadt (1973-1976) and again in Hamburg played Carstensen 1977 at the State Drama Theatres in Berlin. 1982 she moved to Hans Günther Heyme to Stuttgart, 1995 in Bochum. In the meantime, she has guest starred on in all major German theaters, such as several times by the Munich Chamber games. In the 2003 / 04 season, she was seen Bambi piece of land at Vienna's Burgtheater in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek; Directed by Christoph Schlingensief. A longer-term cooperation, they went to different houses (eg in Bochum and Munich) with director Leander Haussmann one. 2011, she excelled at the side of Martin Wuttke at the Berlin Volksbühne in René Pollesch piece "Throw away your ego ."

Film and television roles

As a film actress, she excelled especially in numerous film and television productions Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She played leading roles in the films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972 ), Martha (1974, with among others Karlheinz Böhm ), fear of fear (1975 ), Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975 ), Problem Child (1976) Chinese Roulette (1976) and The Third Generation (1979). Even a single episode of the Cooper series Eight Hours Do not Day (1972) and Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1980), she stood in front of the camera.

Your years of artistic collaboration with Christoph Schlingensief started with two film projects: in 100 years Adolf Hitler - The Last Hour in the Führerbunker (1989 ) she played Magda Goebbels; in the media satire Terror 2000 (1992) she assisted Peter Kern as a detective. Also for international productions she has been posted more than once. In the third feature film by Polish director Andrzej Żuławski, Possession ( 1981), she played alongside Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill and Heinz Bennents. Four years later, dedicated Agnieszka Holland Oscar-nominated her for her film Angry Harvest (1985, with Armin Mueller-Stahl ).

Last looked Carstensen in movies younger directors such as Romuald Karmakar (Manila, 2000), Chris Kraus ( Shattered Glass, 2002), Oskar Roehler ( Agnes and His Brothers, 2004) and Detlev Buck ( Hands off Mississippi, 2007) with.

Awards

Margit Carstensen has won numerous awards, including the Film Award for her dramatic performance in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1973) and the Bavarian Film Award ( 2002). In 1973 she was chosen by the German Film Critics best actress of the year.

Filmography

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