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.
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Barbara Valentin | |
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Born | Ursula Ledersteger (1940-12-15)15 December 1940 Vienna, Austria |
Died | 22 February 2002(2002-02-22) (aged 61) Munich, Germany |
Other names | Barbara Valentine |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1959–2001 |
Valentin was born in 1940 as Ursula Ledersteger in Vienna, Austria.[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. She is featured in the music video for the Queen song, It's a Hard Life.
During her career, Valentin was nicknamed "the German Jayne Mansfield".[4]
On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke in Munich, Germany at the age of 61.[4] She was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich, Germany.
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | |
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1960 | Horrors of Spider Island | Babs | Fritz Böttger | horror film | |
1961 | The Girl with the Narrow Hips [de] (German: Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften) | Beauty queen | Johannes Kai | ||
1961 | The Festival Girls | Valentine | Leigh Jason | ||
1961 | There is Still Room in Hell [de] (German: In der Hölle ist noch Platz) | Janet | Ernst R. von Theumer [de] | ||
1961 | Our Man in Jamaica | Gloria | Ernst R. von Theumer [de] | ||
1968 | The Star Maker | Hotel maid | John Carr | ||
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[5] | 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][6] | |
1974 | Martha | Marianne | Rainer Werner Fassbinder[7] | TV film | |
1974 | 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 [de] | Mona | Nikos Perakis | ||
1976 | An Isfahanian in the Land of Hitler [fa] | 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[8] | |
1981 | Lili Marleen | Eva | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ||
1981 | Looping [de] | Helma | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | ||
1984 | Hell is in Heaven (German: 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 |
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