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Eva Mattes (; born 14 December 1954) is an Austrian-German actress. She has appeared in four films directed by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (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, with whom she was in a relationship. Mattes also appeared in Germany, Pale Mother, and in Enemy at the Gates as the mother of Sasha Filippov. On television, she has played Klara Blum in the police procedural series Tatort.

Eva Mattes

Mattes lives in Berlin with Austrian artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf and two children.

Eva Mattes

Awards

1981 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress

1979 Cannes Film Festival, 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) Actors from Bavaria Südwestrundfunk people

Eva Mattes