Barbara Valentin

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Biography

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

Year Title Role Director Notes
1960 Horrors of Spider Island Babs Fritz Böttger horror film
1961 Template:Interlanguage link multi (German: Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften) Beauty queen Johannes Kai
The Festival Girls Valentine Leigh Jason
Template:Interlanguage link multi (German: In der Hölle ist noch Platz) Janet Template:Interlanguage link multi
1965 Our Man in Jamaica Gloria Template:Interlanguage link multi
1966 Template:Ill Sonja Rolf Olsen
1967 Carmen, Baby Dolores Radley Metzger
1968 Template:Ill Barbara Hans Dieter Bove
The Star Maker Hotel maid John Carr
1970 Template:Ill 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 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][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 Template:Interlanguage link multi Mona Nikos Perakis
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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
Template:Ill 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

References

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