Margit Carstensen

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Margit Carstensen (born February 29, 1940 in Kiel ) is a German theater and film actress . She gained fame among other things through her roles in the productions of Rainer Werner Fassbinder .

Stage career

The daughter of a doctor spent her childhood and youth in the city of her birth. After graduating from high school, she completed an acting training at the State University of Music in Hamburg from 1958 . First stage engagements followed in Kleve , Heilbronn , Münster and Braunschweig . In 1965 she moved to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg for four years ; there she took over leading roles in plays by John Osborne and Lope de Vega . In 1969 she accepted a call to the theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, where she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Major theater and film productions were created under his direction, which made Margit Carstensen known nationwide. She played Vittoria in Carlo Goldoni's comedy Das Kaffeehaus (made into a film in 1970), the role of the serial killer Geesche Gottfried in the world premiere of Fassbinder's own play Bremer Freiheit and the title part in the Ibsen adaptation Nora Helmer (made into a film in 1974).

After stints in Darmstadt (1973–1976) and again in Hamburg, Carstensen played at the State Drama Theaters in Berlin from 1977 . In 1982 she moved to Hansgünther Heyme in Stuttgart , and in 1995 to Bochum . In the meantime she has taken guest roles on all major German-speaking stages, such as B. several times at the Münchner Kammerspiele . In the 2003/04 season she premiered Elfriede Jelinek's play Bambiland at the Burgtheater in Vienna ; Directed by Christoph Schlingensief . She entered into long-term collaborations with the director Leander Haußmann at various theaters (for example in Bochum and Munich ) . In 2011 she shone alongside Martin Wuttke at the Volksbühne in Berlin in René Pollesch's play Schmeiß dein ego weg .

Film and television roles

As a film actress, she excelled in numerous cinema and television productions by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She played leading roles in the films The bitter tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1974, with a.o. Karlheinz Böhm ), Angst vor der Angst (1975), Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (1975), Satansbraten (1976), Chinese Roulette (1976) and The Third Generation (1979). She was also in front of the camera for individual episodes of the Fassbinder series Eight Hours Are Not a Day (1972) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980).

Her longstanding artistic cooperation with Christoph Schlingensief began with two film projects: in 100 Years of Adolf Hitler - The Last Hour in the Führerbunker (1989) she played Magda Goebbels; in the media satirical Terror 2000 (1992) she assists Peter Kern as a detective. She has also been booked several times for international productions. In the fourth feature film by the Polish director Andrzej Żuławski , Possession (1981), she played alongside Isabelle Adjani , Sam Neill and Heinz Bennent . Four years later, Agnieszka Holland engaged her for her Oscar-nominated film Bitter Harvest (1985, with Armin Mueller-Stahl ).

Most recently Carstensen has worked in films by younger directors such as Romuald Karmakar ( Manila , 2000), Chris Kraus ( Scherbentanz , 2002), Oskar Roehler ( Agnes and his brothers , 2004), Detlev Buck ( Hands off Mississippi , 2007) and Frauke Finsterwalder ( Finsterworld , 2013) with.

Awards

Margit Carstensen has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Filmband in Gold for her performance in The bitter tears of Petra von Kant (1973) and the Bavarian Film Prize (2002). In 1973 she was voted best actress of the year by German film critics. She received the Götz George Prize for her life's work in 2019.

Filmography

Radio plays

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ "Fame instead of retirement": Actress Margit Carstensen receives Götz-George-Preis , nachtkritik.de of August 20, 2019, accessed on the same date
personal data
SURNAME Carstensen, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel