One of the iconic stars of the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, died today at the age of 83, her agent announced.
The German theater and film actress Margaret Carstensenone of the iconic stars in his films Rainer Werner Fassbinderdied today at the age of 83, her agent announced.
Carstensen was born in Kiel, northern Germany, in 1940. She came to prominence when she starred in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, a film directed by Fassbinder in 1972. She played a self-absorbed fashion designer who falls in love with a younger woman (played by Hanna Sigula) and was awarded for her performance. Two years later she starred in the film “Martha”, a Fassbinder drama where she played the wife of a perverted narcissist. She also starred in Chinese Roulette (1976) and Women in New York (1977).
She starred in many theater productions, notably in Germany and Austria, working with the subversive director Christoph Schlingenzieff. Among others, she played Magda Goebbels, the wife of Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich, in the play “100 Years of Adolf Hitler”.
Her biggest commercial success was 1999’s Zonenalee, a comedy about life in communist East Berlin in the 1970s.
In 2019 she was awarded for her entire career with the prestigious German Goetz George Prize.
Source :Skai
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