Barbara Valentin
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| Born | Ursula Ledersteger 15 December 1940 Vienna, Reichsgaue of the Ostmark, Nazi Germany |
| Died | 22 February 2002 (aged 61) Munich, Germany |
| Other names | Barbara Valentine |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1959–2001 |
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Barbara Valentin (born Ursula Ledersteger; 15 December 1940 – 22 February 2002)[1] was an Austrian actress. She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Valentin was born in 1940 as Ursula Ledersteger in Vienna, Austria (then part of Nazi Germany).[2][3] Her father was the Austrian art director Hans Ledersteger and her mother the actress Irmgard Alberti. She had a half-brother, Alfred Ledersteger. She was married to German film director Helmut Dietl.[2]
During the early to mid-1980s, Valentin was close friends with Freddie Mercury, who lived with her and her daughter in her Munich apartment for some time.[4][5] She is featured in the video for the Queen song It's a Hard Life.
During her career, Valentin was nicknamed "the German Jayne Mansfield".[6]
On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke in Munich at the age of 61.[6] She was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich.
Selected filmography
[edit | edit source]| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The Head | The hostess and a dancer | Victor Trivas | [7] |
| 1960 | Horrors of Spider Island | Babs | Fritz Böttger | horror film |
| 1961 | The Girl with the Narrow Hips (German: Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften) | Beauty queen | Johannes Kai | |
| The Festival Girls | Valentine | Leigh Jason | ||
| There Is Still Room in Hell (German: In der Hölle ist noch Platz) | Janet | Ernst R. von Theumer | ||
| 1965 | Our Man in Jamaica | Gloria | Ernst R. von Theumer | |
| 1966 | Call Girls of Frankfurt | Sonja | Rolf Olsen | |
| 1967 | Carmen, Baby | Dolores | Radley Metzger | |
| 1968 | Der Partyphotograph | Barbara | Hans Dieter Bove | |
| The Star Maker | Hotel maid | John Carr | ||
| 1970 | Love, Vampire Style | Rosi | Helmut Förnbacher | |
| 1971 | Furchtlose Flieger | Blondie | Veith von Fürstenberg, Martin Müller | |
| 1972 | King, Queen, Knave | Optician | Jerzy Skolimowski | |
| 1973 | World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) | Gloria Fromm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder[8] | TV film |
| 1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (German: Angst essen Seele auf) | Barbara | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | A film about an older German woman who enters an Arab bar where she meets and marries a younger man from Morocco.[3][9] |
| Martha | Marianne | Rainer Werner Fassbinder[10] | TV film | |
| Effi Briest | Marietta Tripelli | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ||
| 1975 | Fox and His Friends (German: Faustrecht der Freiheit) | Max's wife | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
| 1976 | Bomber & Paganini | Mona | Nikos Perakis | |
| An Isfahanian in the Land of Hitler | Nosratollah Vahdat | |||
| 1977 | Women in Hospital | Angelika's mother | Rolf Thiele | |
| 1978 | Flaming Hearts | Karola Faber | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | |
| 1980 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Ida | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 15½-hour television adaptation of Alfred Döblin's epic 1929 novel[11] |
| 1981 | Lili Marleen | Eva | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
| Looping | Helma | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | ||
| 1984 | Im Himmel ist die Hölle los | Erika Schrillmann | Helmer von Lützelburg | Satirical film |
| 1987 | The Second Victory | Greta Mayer | Gerald Thomas | |
| 2000 | Fassbinder's Women | Herself | Rosa von Praunheim |
References
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External links
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