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Eva Mattes (; born 14 December 1954) is a German-Austrian actress. She has appeared in four films directed by director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema moveme ...
(''
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant'', ', ''
Effi Briest'' and ''
In a Year of 13 Moons''). In ' (1984), she played a bearded film director, based on the recently deceased Fassbinder.
She has also appeared in two films of
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusu ...
, with whom she was in a relationship. Mattes also appeared in ''
Germany, Pale Mother,'' and in ''
Enemy at the Gates
''Enemy at the Gates'' (''Stalingrad'' in France and ''L'Ennemi aux portes'' in Canada) is a 2001 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on William Craig (author), William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book ''Enemy ...
'' as the mother of
Sasha Filippov. On television, she has played Klara Blum in the
police procedural
The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agency, law enforcement agencies ...
series ''
Tatort''.
Mattes lives in Berlin with Austrian artist
Wolfgang Georgsdorf and two children.
Awards
* 1981
Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress
* 1979
Cannes Film Festival
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Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...
, Jury's Special Grand Prix
Selected filmography
References
External links
Homepage of Eva Mattes*
Photographs of Eva Mattes
1954 births
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses
German film actresses
German television actresses
Living people
Best Actress German Film Award winners
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
People from Miesbach (district)
Actresses from Bavaria
Südwestrundfunk people
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