Lina Carstens

Lina Carstens (6 December 1892 – 22 September 1978) was a German film and theatre actress. On stage she appeared in plays by Gerhart Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, and August Strindberg, and also starred in many films.

Early life

Lina Carstens was born on 6 December 1892 in Wiesbaden.

Career

Carstens began her career as an actress before the First World War at the Court Theatre in Karlsruhe. It belonged to during the First World War and shortly thereafter the cabaret retort to the writer Ringelnatz to. She was married to the author Otto Ernst Sutter until his death in 1970.

In Konstanz she played the first Mother Courage in the eponymous play by Bertolt Brecht on a German stage.

She began her film career 1922. The director Douglas Sirk gave her various leading roles.

After the Second World War she continued her career as a character actress. She also managed to get roles in the New German Cinema.

In the ZDF television series Der Bastian (1973) she had a role alongside Horst Janson and Karin Anselm.

In 1975 Carstens starred in the film Lina Braake, directed by Bernhard Sinkel.[1]

She also worked extensively as a voice actor and was dubbed over Margaret Rutherford (Passport to Pimlico), Françoise Rosay (Le Joueur) and Helene Thimig (Decision Before Dawn).

Awards and honours

In 1939 Carstens was named a state actor by Joseph Goebbels.

In 1972 she won the Film Award for her many years of service, in 1975 she was honoured with the same award for her performance in Lina Braake.

Death

Carstens died on 22 September 1978 in Munich. She received a burial at sea in the North Sea.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "GESTORBEN: Peter Vogel, Lina Carstens, Rudolf Nebel". Der Spiegel (in German). 25 September 1978. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2017.


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