Barbara Valentin | |
Birthname: | Ursula Ledersteger |
Birth Date: | 15 December 1940 |
Birth Place: | Vienna, Nazi Germany |
Death Place: | Munich, Germany |
Othername: | Barbara Valentine |
Occupation: | Actress |
Years Active: | 1959–2001 |
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.
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.
During the early to mid-1980s, Valentin was close friends with Freddie Mercury, who lived with her and her daughter together in her Munich apartment for some time.[4] [5] 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".[6]
On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke in Munich, Germany at the age of 61. She was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich, Germany.
1960 | Horrors of Spider Island | Babs | Fritz Böttger | horror film | |
1961 | (German: Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften) | Beauty queen | Johannes Kai | ||
The Festival Girls | Valentine | Leigh Jason | |||
(German: In der Hölle ist noch Platz) | Janet | ||||
1965 | Our Man in Jamaica | Gloria | |||
1966 | Sonja | Rolf Olsen | |||
1967 | Carmen, Baby | Dolores | Radley Metzger | ||
1968 | Barbara | Hans Dieter Bove | |||
The Star Maker | Hotel maid | John Carr | |||
1970 | 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[7] | TV film | |
1974 | (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.[8] | |
Martha | Marianne | Rainer Werner Fassbinder[9] | 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 | Mona | Nikos Perakis | |||
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[10] | |
1981 | Lili Marleen | Eva | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ||
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 |