Biography: Margit Carstensen

Birth Name: Margit Carstensen

Birth Date: February 29, 1940

Birth Place: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Margit Carstensen (29 February 1940 – 1 June 2023) was a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Carstensen was born and raised in the northern German city of Kiel. Upon graduation from the local high school in ...