Lina Carstens

Lina Carstens (6 December 1892 in Wiesbaden – 22 September 1978 in Munich) was a German film and theater actress. On stage she appeared in plays by Gerhart Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, and August Strindberg, and in her old age she starred in the film Lina Braake directed by Bernhard Sinkel.
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 1939 she was named a state actor by Joseph Goebbels. She played in Konstanz 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 1972 she won the Film Award for her many years of service, in 1975 she was the same award for their outstanding performance in Lina Braake honored.
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).
She received a burial at sea in the North Sea .
Selected filmography
Leidendes Land (1921)
Verkrachte Existenzen (1924)
April, April! (1935) - Mathilde Lampe
The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935) - Mutter Christmann
To New Shores (1937) - Bänkelsängerin
The Broken Jug (1937) - Marthe Rull
Tango Notturno (1937) - Frau Wattson
Grossalarm (1938) - Frau Timmler
Heimat (1938) - Fränze von Klebs
The Curtain Falls (1939) - Frau Florian
Mann für Mann (1939) - Mutter Handrup
The Eternal Spring (1940) - Lohhofbäuerin
Passion (1940)
Commissioner Eyck (1940) - Mrs. Filter
Bal paré (1940) - Gemischtwarenhändlerin Lina Brunnhuber
My Daughter Doesn't Do That (1940) - Baronin Liebrenz
Wie konntest Du, Veronika! (1940) - Fräulein Schwertfeger
Für die Katz (1940) - Wirtin Katrin Geerken
Der dunkle Punkt (1940) - Frau des Hauswirts
Das leichte Mädchen (1940) - Großtante Emma
A Gust of Wind (1942) - Frau Galassi
Wedding in Barenhof (1942) - Fränze von Hanckel
Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg (1943)
...und die Musik spielt dazu (1943) - Therese Staudinger
Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel (1944) - Maria Theresia, seine Schwester
The Green Salon (1944) - Klara, 'das Pferd', Haushälterin bei Anna Bütow
The Last Illusion (1949) - Emma
Dr. Holl (1951) - Frau von Bergmann
Bluebeard (1951) - Amme
My Name is Niki (1952) - Frau Altmann
The Great Temptation (1952) - Frau Dr. Eibichler
Illusion in a Minor Key (1952) - Bertha
A Heart Plays False (1953) - Mutter Pratsch
Arlette Conquers Paris (1953) - Concierge Frau Pézat
Fanfare of Marriage (1953) - Mrs. Yell
Secretly Still and Quiet (1953) - Tante Titania
The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch (1954) - Oberschwester
Fireworks (1954) - Tante Paula
Dear Miss Doctor (1954) - Oberin des Klosters
The Missing Miniature (1954) - Frau Külz
Hello, My Name Is Cox (1955)
Beloved Enemy (1955) - Mrs. Durham
Jackboot Mutiny (1955) - Frau des Küsters (uncredited)
Sky Without Stars (1955)
Holiday in Tyrol (1956) - Frau Kramer
My Husband's Getting Married Today (1956) - Tante Erna
Kleines Zelt und große Liebe (1956) - Fraeulein Saint-Cyr
The Spessart Inn (1958) - Cook (uncredited)
I Was All His (1958) - Frau Mertens
Zum goldenen Ochsen (1958) - Frau Mäglin
Resurrection (1958) - Matrjona
Wir Wunderkinder (1958) - Vette
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1959) - Frau Feuerhake
Arzt ohne Gewissen (1959) - Frau Kleinhans
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959) - Frau Höppke - eine alte Frau
Love Now, Pay Later (1959) - Frau Huber, Vermieterin
Das schwarze Schaf (1960) - Mrs. Smith
Gustav Adolf's Page (1960) - Haushälterin Therese
Liebling - Ich muß Dich erschießen (1962) - Frau Terraz
He Can't Stop Doing It (1962) - Mrs. Smith
Moartea lui Joe Indianul (1968) - Aunt Polly
(1968, TV Mini-Series) - Tante Polly Jones
Der Bastian (1973, TV Series, 13 episodes) - Oma Martha Guthmann
(1974) - Großmutter
Three Men in the Snow (1974) - Frau Tobler
The Unguarded House (1975, TV Movie) - Filme para televisão
Lina Braake (1975) - Lina Braake
Berlinger (1975)
(1976, TV Movie) - Oma Janda
(1977) - Dienerin Riebisch
(1978, TV Movie) - Großmutter Celina
The Rider on the White Horse (1978) - Trin Jans
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1892 births
1978 deaths
Actors from Wiesbaden
Actors from Hesse-Nassau
German film actresses
German stage actresses
German television actresses
20th-century German actresses
Best Actress German Film Award winners
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany