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06/06/13
Fassbinder in the Louvre
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ showing from June 14 to 16
It is fifty years since the Élysée Treaty was signed by France and Germany and as part of the program of events accompanying the exhibition “De l'Allemagne, 1800-1939. De Friedrich à Beckmann” Fassbinder’s magnum opus is (...)
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05/30/13
Hanna Schygulla reads Stéphane Hessel in Berlin’s Literaturcafé
Commemorating a resistance fighter, poet and essayist
On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 8 p.m., the co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and political activist Stéphane Frédéric Hessel is being commemorated. He died in February this year.
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05/28/13
Lou Castel’s seventieth birthday
A black leather jacket and 10 Cuba Libres
Lou Castel was born Ulv Quarzéll in Columbia (Bogota) on May 28, 1943 to an Irish father and an Italian mother. He moved to Europe as a young man and began training as an actor at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
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05/21/13
German stage premiere of “World on a Wire”
Premiere in the Schauspielhaus Dortmund on June 2, 2013
The highly anticipated theater production of World on a Wire is now coming to the stage in Dortmund and providing a counterpoint to the version seen in Fassbinder’s film. Adapting the two-part science fiction film (...)
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05/07/13
Remembering Liselotte Eder-Fassbinder on the 20th anniversary of her death
Liselotte Irmgard Pempeit, later divorced Fassbinder and widowed Eder, mother of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was born on October 6, 1922 in Schmiede/Kowall in the municipality of Danzig. She was the second child of Agnes und Rudolf Pempeit. Following the birth of her brother, Kurt Pempeit, in (...)
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05/03/13
Jeanne Moreau in A LADY IN PARIS
A remarkable testament to aging with dignity
France loves its icons, one of whom is certainly the grande dame of French cinema Jeanne Moreau. In A LADY IN PARIS, Moreau gives a wonderful performance as the flinty Frida, who proves more than a challenge for Anne, played by (...)
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04/27/13
Congratulations to Barbara Sukowa
LOLA for the best actress in a leading role
At the sixty-third presentation of the German Film Awards held at Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast, Barbara Sukowa received the Best Actress award for her performance in Margarethe von Trotta’s HANNAH ARENDT.
It is the (...)
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04/25/13
US premiere of “In a Year with 13 Moons”
Yale Repertory Theatre – April 26 to May 18 2013
Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff have adapted the script from Fassbinder’s film while retaining the original dialog. The English translation is by Louisa Proske. Having staged over 70 plays, director Robert Woodruff is now an (...)
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04/21/13
Blood on the Cat’s Neck in the USA
From April 25 at the Torn Space Theater in Buffalo
Blood on the Cat’s Neck is another one of Fassbinder’s commissioned works and was written at the beginning of the 1970s for the Städtische Bühnen in Nuremberg. The premiere by the antitheater ensemble took place on (...)
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04/18/13
Water drops on Burning Rocks in Liège and Vienna
Innovative productions in April and May
Two interesting productions of Fassbinder’s early work Water Drops on Burning Rocks are currently running in France and Austria. The Festival Emulation in Liège has included the 2012 production by the young Belgian director Caspar (...)
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