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09/17/10
Veronika Voss for the First Time on Stage
Premiere on September 17, 2010 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt / Kammerspiele
It is the postwar period in the former Federal Republic of Germany: Obviously Veronika Voss (Stephanie Eidt), a UFA star of the 1930s, is among the losers. On a rainy night, sports journalist Robert (...)
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09/09/10
Opening of the Boulevard of Stars to be Celebrated
Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains unforgotten
A memorial to RWF will be erected near Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz on the newly created Boulevard of Stars. On September 10, 2010 he will receive his star along with 40 other German individuals from the universe of film. They were (...)
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09/08/10
Mario Adorf turns 80
Congratulations to the Actor and Author
Mario Adorf is one of the most versatile performers on the German and European film and TV stages. Throughout a career that spans almost 60 years, he is considered one of the most striking character actors. In addition, he has published (...)
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08/04/10
Happy Birthday Michael Ballhaus!
75 Years Young And As Active As Ever
On August 5, 2010, Michael Ballhaus will have his great day and the Fassbinder Foundation wishes him all the very best for his birthday. It is a well-known fact that Michael Ballhaus is one of the greatest filmmakers of the German (...)
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07/26/10
WORLD ON A WIRE in Melbourne
On August 1 and 4 at the Melbourne International Film Festival
The tour of Fassbinder’s newly restored two-part masterpiece will soon reach the Australian festival audience. The 59th Melbourn International Film Festival (MIFF) takes place between July 22 and August 8, (...)
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06/28/10
Forty Years Ago Today: RWF’s WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?
A stylistic exception among Fassbinder’s works
As Christian Braad Thomsen writes in his book Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Leben und Werk eines masslosen Genies (Rogner & Bernhard, 1993), WHY DOES HERR RUN AMOK?—which examines the intolerability of a seemingly (...)
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06/25/10
I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME and OF LOVE AND CONSTRAINTS
Restored version of the original film and documentary film at the Munich Film Festival
Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a construction worker named Peter (Vitus Zeplichal) who grew up without compassion, let alone love, during Germany’s economic miracle. Peter has (...)
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06/09/10
Garbage, the City and Death to Premiere in Ireland
Plastic Theatre Company performs the piece in Dublin
The theater poster for the Ireland premiere announces “A notorious anti-musical about power, prostitution, prosperity, and prejudices.” Director Jane Mulcahy will stage the controversial Fassbinder play in one of (...)
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06/02/10
The Author Gerhard Zwerenz Turns 85
A Literary All-Rounder
Gerhard Zwerenz was born on June 3, 1925, in Gablenz, a section of the Saxon town of Crimmitschau. He learned the trade of coppersmithing before volunteering for the military at the age of 17. He deserted in 1944 and after spending four years in Russian (...)
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05/28/10
On May 31, RWF would have turned 65
A Star in German Film History
On May 31, the anniversary year 2010 reaches a climax. One gift to mark the occasion of RWF’s 65th birthday was the restored version of WORLD ON A WIRE. Facilitated by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, it could already be admired during the (...)
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