Barbara Valentin

{{Infobox person

| name = Barbara Valentin

| image =Barbara Valentin.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption =Valentin, c. 1959

| birthname = Ursula Ledersteger

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|12|15|df =y}}

| birth_place = Vienna, Reichsgaue of the Ostmark, Nazi Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|2|22|1940|12|15|df =y}}

| death_place = Munich, Germany

| othername = Barbara Valentine

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1959–2001

}}

Barbara Valentin (born Ursula Ledersteger; 15 December 1940 – 22 February 2002){{Cite web|title=Barbara Valentin, German actress|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barbara-Valentin|access-date=2021-11-09|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719152139/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barbara-Valentin|archive-date=19 July 2020|language=en}} was an Austrian actress. She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Biography

Valentin was born in 1940 as Ursula Ledersteger in Vienna, Austria (then part of Nazi Germany).{{Cite book|title=Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Biography|last=Bret|first=David|year=2014|isbn=9781291819434}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSei6TygFxoC|title=The A to Z of German Cinema|last1=Reimer|first1=Robert C.|last2=Reimer|first2=Carol J.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2010|isbn=9781461731863|location=Plymouth, U.K.|pages=300}} 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 in her Munich apartment for some time.{{cite book |title=Mercury in München: Seine besten Jahre |trans-title=Mercury in Munich: His best years |last=Bardola |first=Nicola |publisher=Heyne Verlag |year=2021 |isbn=978-3641276539}}{{cite AV media |title=Sechs Jahre hat Freddie Mercury in München gelebt - eine Spurensuche |trans-title=Freddie Mercury lived in Munich for six years - a search for clues |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqhkiNg1OPg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/YqhkiNg1OPg |archive-date=6 February 2022|publisher=Bayerischer Rundfunk |date=4 October 2021 |language=de}} 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".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HnGCwAAQBAJ|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture|last=Lentz III|first=Harris M.|publisher=McFarland|year=2003|isbn=0786414642|pages=309|via=Google Books}}

On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke in Munich at the age of 61. She was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich.

Selected filmography

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!Year

!Title

!Role

!Director

!Notes

1960

|Horrors of Spider Island

|Babs

|Fritz Böttger

|horror film

rowspan=3|1961

|{{Interlanguage link multi|The Girl with the Narrow Hips|de|Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften}} (German: Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften)

|Beauty queen

|Johannes Kai

The Festival Girls

|Valentine

|Leigh Jason

{{Interlanguage link multi|There Is Still Room in Hell|de|In der Hölle ist noch Platz}} (German: In der Hölle ist noch Platz)

|Janet

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Ernst R. von Theumer|de|Ernst von Theumer senior}}

1965

|Our Man in Jamaica

|Gloria

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Ernst R. von Theumer|de|Ernst von Theumer senior}}

1966

|{{ill|Call Girls of Frankfurt|de|In Frankfurt sind die Nächte heiß}}

|Sonja

|Rolf Olsen

1967

|Carmen, Baby

|Dolores

|Radley Metzger

rowspan=2|1968

|{{ill|Der Partyphotograph|de}}

|Barbara

|Hans Dieter Bove

The Star Maker

|Hotel maid

|John Carr

1970

|{{Ill|Love, Vampire Style|de|Beiß mich Liebling!}}

|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{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/movies/04wire.html|title=A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time|last=Lim|first=Dennis|date=2010-04-10|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-11-23|language=en}}

|TV film

rowspan=3|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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/angst-essen-seele-auf|title=Angst essen Seele auf|website=Festival de Cannes|language=fr|access-date=2019-08-30}}

Martha

|Marianne

|Rainer Werner Fassbinder{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/24/movies/film-festival-review-fassbinder-on-the-painfully-tight-bonds-of-marriage.html|title=FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW; Fassbinder on the Painfully Tight Bonds of Marriage|last=Holden|first=Stephen|date=1994|access-date=2018-11-23|language=en}}

|TV film

Effi Briest

|Marietta Tripelli

|Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1975

|Fox and His Friends (German: Faustrecht der Freiheit)

|Max's wife

|Rainer Werner Fassbinder

rowspan=2|1976

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Bomber & Paganini|de}}

|Mona

|Nikos Perakis

{{ill|An Isfahanian in the Land of Hitler|fa|یک اصفهانی در سرزمین هیتلر}}

1977

|Angelika's mother

1978

|Karola Faber

|Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann

1980

|Berlin Alexanderplatz

|Ida

|Rainer Werner Fassbinder

|15½-hour television adaptation of Alfred Döblin's epic 1929 novel{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/10/movies/screen-by-fassbinder-berlin-alexanderplatz.html|title=Screen: By Fassbinder, 'BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ'|date=1983-08-10|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-11-23|language=en}}

rowspan=2|1981

|Lili Marleen

|Eva

|Rainer Werner Fassbinder

{{Ill|Looping (1980 film)|de|3=Looping (1980)|lt=Looping}}

|Helma

|Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann

1984

|Hell is in Heaven (German: Im Himmel ist die Hölle los)

|Erika Schrillmann

|Helmer von Lützelburg

|Satirical film