Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation

	01/23/13 Jeanne Moreau turns 85 A diva of European cinema Jeanne Moreau was born in Paris on January 23, 1928 and began training as an actor in 1946 after finishing high school. She was only 20 when she was she invited to work full time with the venerable Comédie-Française. She subsequently (...) more

	01/21/13 Michael Ballhaus receives award from Max Ophüls Film Festival A prize recognizing services to new German-language film This year the Max Ophüls Film Festival (January 21-27) is awarding a special prize for services to new German film for only the second time. During the opening of the Saarbrucken festival, now in its (...) more

	01/17/13 HANNAH ARENDT starring Barbara Sukowa premieres throughout Germany Margarethe von Trotta portrays another towering female figure on film After playing the protagonists in ROSA LUXEMBURG (1986) and VISION (2009), Barbara Sukowa—once again working with the director of Margarethe von Trotta—now takes on the role of the philosopher and (...) more

	01/15/13 Ulli Lommel at Berlin’s Volksbühne “Fucking Liberty” opens on January 17 in the main auditorium Ladies & Gentlemen! ... A vaudeville show! Duck shooting in America! A world in 3D! With film, live music, quotations, icons of popular culture and a puppet show!!! A trip to the Planet of the Apes and back (...) more

	01/10/13 „Fear Eats Germany“ at Berlin´s Schaubühne The sensibilities of a country towards “intellectual-moral” transformation Director Patrick Wengenroth characterizes his piece as, “retrospectively looking forward from the viewpoint and with the words of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.” The series of interviews conducted with (...) more

	01/08/13 Congratulations to Jean-Marie Straub Legendary tracking shot through Landsberger Strasse was a gift to RWF Born January 8, 1933, Jean-Marie Straub initially grew up speaking French but was forced to learn German in the course of the German occupation. Following the end of the war he attended the Saint-Clément (...) more

	12/27/12 40 years ago: RWFs BREMEN FREEDOM and JAILBAIT Poisonings and an ugly scandal in late 1972 On December 27, 1972, BREMEN FREEDOM was shown for the first time on German television and, from December 30, 1972 onwards, JAILBAIT caused a stir across the Federal Republic. Both films deal with the attempt by characters to free (...) more

	12/21/12 Christmas greetings and RWFF Review of the Year 2012 more

	11/27/12 Edgar Reitz: time-traveling through the nineteenth century at 80 HEIMAT IV to hit the big screen in 2013 The German filmmaker and author Edgar Reitz, who was born in Morbach, Hunsrück in the far west of Germany on November 1, 1932, recently celebrated his eightieth birthday. As one of the signatories to the Oberhausen (...) more

	11/13/12 HANDS ON FASSBINDER – #6 MY FASSBINDER – Fassbinder and international cinema Final event on November 17 and 18 in Berlin The series of events taking place in 2012 under the umbrella title of HANDS ON FASSBINDER is a collective project mounted by the German film journal REVOLVER, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), the (...) more

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