Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (born July 27, 1936) is a German film editor who was a member of the New German Cinema movement and is noted particularly for her many films with director Werner Herzog. Between 1966 and 1986, she was credited on more than twenty-five feature films and feature-length documentaries. Following her final film with Kluge, Miscellaneous News (1986), she retired into private life; the New German Cinema era was over.