Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen was a German stage and film actress who died on June 1, 2023. She became known through her long work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the 1970s. Margit Carstensen appears nude in Martha from 1974 and again in Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette. She was born on February 29, 1940, in Kiel, Germany. Her best-known Fassbinder role was in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972). That part earned her the 1973 German Film Award in gold. She also worked abroad in Possession (1981) and Angry Harvest (1985), which earned an Academy Award nomination. Later she won a Bavarian Film Award for Scherbentanz and appeared in the crime series Tatort.