Margit Carstensen

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Birth Name: Margit Carstensen

Born: 29 February 1940 Died: 1 June 2023

Country of origin: Germany

Height: 5' 7"

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Description: Margit Carstensen was a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Margit Carstensen was the daughter of a physician, and was born and raised in the north-German city of Kiel. Upon graduation from the local Gymnasium (high school) in 1958, she attended acting school in Hamburg. This education led to her first stage appearances in Kleve, Heilbronn, Münster and Braunschweig. In 1965 Margit Carstensen received a four-year engagement with the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (German Playhouse) in Hamburg. There she played leading roles in plays by, among Margit Carstensen was a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Margit Carstensen was the daughter of a physician, and was born and raised in the north-German city of Kiel. Upon graduation from the local Gymnasium (high school) in 1958, she attended acting school in Hamburg. This education led to her first stage appearances in Kleve, Heilbronn, Münster and Braunschweig. In 1965 Margit Carstensen received a four-year engagement with the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (German Playhouse) in Hamburg. There she played leading roles in plays by, among others, John Osborne and the classical Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.

In 1969 she gained local fame in the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, where she met director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She then worked under his direction in a comedy by the eighteenth-century Venetian Carlo Goldoni The Coffee Shop (which was recorded for television in 1970), bringing her to national fame 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.

From 1973-76 Carstensen held a steady acting engagement in Darmstadt, and from 1976-77 once again in Hamburg. In 1977 she moved to what was then 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. Over the years she also performed in many smaller roles on the most important of the German-language stages, for example making several appearances in the Munich Kammerspiele.

By the late 1980s she had developed ongoing working relationships with well-known German directors Werner Schroeter, Christoph Schlingensief and Leander Haußmann. In 1995 she followed Haußmann to Bochum, in order to work with him there. For the season of 2003/04 Ms. Carstensen appeared in the Vienna Burgtheater, in the premiere of Elfriede Jelinek’s play “Bambiland,” under direction of Schlingensief.

In 2008 she appeared in the Schauspielhaus Bochum (Playhouse Bochum), in Shakespeare's As You Like It. ... (more)

Tags: German (2), Actress (2), Born 1940 (1), Blue Eyes (1), Died Aged 83 (1), Born February 29 (1), Died 2023 (1)

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