Barbara Valentin

Barbara Valentin (born Ursula Ledersteger; 15 December 1940 – 22 February 2002) 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). 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. friends with Freddie Mercury, who lived with her and her daughter in her Munich apartment for some time. 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".

On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke in Munich at the age of 61. 1960 Horrors of Spider Island Babs Fritz Böttger horror film

(German: Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften) Beauty queen 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

Barbara Hans Dieter Bove The Star Maker Hotel maid John Carr 1970 Rosi Helmut Förnbacher 1971 Furchtlose Flieger Blondie , 1972 King, Queen, Knave Optician Jerzy Skolimowski 1973 World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) Gloria Fromm Rainer Werner Fassbinder TV film

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. Martha Marianne Rainer Werner Fassbinder TV film Effi Briest Marietta Tripelli Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1975 Fox and His Friends (German: Faustrecht der Freiheit) Max's wife Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Lili Marleen Eva Rainer Werner Fassbinder Helma Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann 1984 Erika Schrillmann Satirical film 1987 The Second Victory Greta Mayer Gerald Thomas 2000 Fassbinder's Women Herself Rosa von Praunheim