Liselotte Eder-pempit (1922 - 2003) is the employee Meier.

Fassbinder’s mother was born in Schmiede near Gdansk. In 1942, she began to study German in Munich. During enrollment, she met her later husband, Helmut Fassbinder. After their 1944 marriage, their son Rainer was born in May 1945. She worked as a translator from English into German; her responsibilities included the first German translations of short stories by Truman Capote. After she divorced Helmut Fassbinder, in 1951, she was, due to a lung disease, forced to live in a lung clinic until 1958. In 1959, she married the journalist Wolf Eder. After her first role in GODS OF THE PLAGUE (1969), she participated in more than twenty Fassbinder films. Particularly noteworthy: Effi’s Mother in FONTANE EFFI BRIEST. From 1971 until 1978, she was the business manager for her son’s production firm, Tango-Film, on top of her full-time job as programmer in a Munich research institute. After Fassbinder’s death she founded the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation in Munich in 1986. Liselotte Eder died in Oberaudorf, near Munich in 1993.


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