Eva Mattes

This article is about an actress, for the artist with the same name, see Eva and Franco Mattes

Eva Mattes at Filmfest Hamburg 2009

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Eva Mattes, 2012

Eva Mattes (born 14 December 1954, Tegernsee, Germany) is an Austro-German actress.

Mattes was featured in four films directed by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, de, Effi Briest and In a Year of 13 Moons). In A Man Called Eva (Ein Mann wie EVA, 1984), she played a bearded film director, based on the recently deceased Fassbinder.

She has also appeared in two films of Werner Herzog, a former partner. In 1980 they had a daughter together, Hanna Mattes. Eva Mattes also appeared in Germany, Pale Mother, and in Enemy at the Gates as the mother of Sasha Fillipov.

Eva Mattes is well known in German-speaking countries for her role as Klara Blum in the Tatort television series.

Awards

• 1981 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress
• 1979 Cannes Film Festival, Jury's Special Grand Prix

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1970	o.k.	Phan Ti Mao	Michael Verhoeven
	Mathias Kneissl	Katharina Kneissl	Reinhard Hauff
1972	The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant	Gabriele von Kant	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1973	de	Hanni	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	TV film
	Desaster	Rosi	Reinhard Hauff	TV film
1974	de	Monika	de
	Effi Briest	Hulda	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1976	Naked Massacre	Catherine	Denis Héroux
1977	Stroszek	Eva	Werner Herzog
1978	In a Year of 13 Moons	Marie-Ann Weishaupt	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1979	David	Toni	Peter Lilienthal
	Woyzeck	Marie	Werner Herzog
1980	Germany, Pale Mother	Lene	Helma Sanders-Brahms
	Céleste	fr	Percy Adlon
1984	Ein Mann wie EVA	EVA (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)	de
1986	Auf immer und ewig	Mo	de
1997	de	Simone Behrend	de	TV film
1998	Widows - Erst die Ehe, dann das Vergnügen	Molly Dollinger	Sherry Hormann
2001	Enemy at the Gates	Mother Filippova	Jean-Jacques Annaud
	Goebbels und Geduldig	Magda Goebbels	de	TV film
2002-15	Tatort	Hauptkommissarin Klara Blum		TV series (28 Episodes)
2014	Fever	Franziska	de

External links

• Homepage of Eva Mattes
• Eva Mattes at the Internet Movie Database
• Photographs of Eva Mattes