09/10/12
HANDS ON FASSBINDER – #4 WHO LOVES – WORKING IN A GROUP

Lectures and discussions in Berlin on September 15 and 16

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 (...)

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09/03/12
Closing event of the RWF Exhibition in the Munich Theater Museum

Rudolf Waldemar Brem and Hans Hirschmüller

The highly successful exhibition on RWF’s work for the theater held at the German Theater Museum in Munich (May 25 – September 9) is now drawing to an end. Its conclusion is being marked on Thursday, September 6 at 7 (...)

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08/31/12
30 years ago: RWF‘s QUERELLE

A story of love, betrayal and murder 

QUERELLE had its world premiere at the World Film Festival in Montréal in late August 1982. The European premiere followed only a few days later on August 31 at the International Film Festival in Venice. It was (...)

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08/29/12
Gottfried John turns 70

German film’s most striking visage and its saddest eyes

Gottfried John was born in Berlin on August 29, 1942 and spent most of his early years living in child-welfare institutions. In 1960 he moved with his mother to Paris, where he earned his living as, among (...)

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07/31/12
Giancarlo Giannini turns 70

Hanna Schygulla’s co-star in LILI MARLEEN

Giancarlo Giannini, the internationally renowned Italian character actor, was born on August 1, 1942 in La Spezia on the Ligurian coast and grew up in Naples. His long film career now comprises around 140 (...)

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07/09/12
The actress Doris Schade died on June 25, 2012

The passing of an actress who appeared in RWF’s VERONIKA VOSS

Doris Schade has died at the age of 88 in Munich surrounded by her family. Born on May 21, 1924 in the Thuringian town of Bad Frankenhausen, she grew up in the Soviet Union and Japan, where her (...)

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07/06/12
HANDS ON FASSBINDER – #3 ON POLITICS

On Saturday, July 14, 2012, discussions and lectures 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 (...)

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07/04/12
Karlheinz Braun Celebrates His Eightieth Birthday

Initiator and cofounder of the Verlag der Autoren

Karlheinz Braun was born in Frankfurt am Main on July 4, 1932. In 1952 he enrolled in at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he studied literature and philosophy, later continuing his studies in Paris (...)

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07/02/12
Dramatist Tom Stoppard turns 75

Marking the birthday of the author of the screenplay for DESPAIR

Sir Tom Stoppard was born Tomáš Straussler in the Czechoslovakian town of Zlín on July 3, 1937. Both his parents were Jewish and the family fled the National (...)

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06/28/12
40 Years Ago: RWF’s THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT

A chamber play about dependency and the economics of emotions

On June 25, 1972, Fassbinder’s thirteenth feature film, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, premiered as a German competition entry at the Berlin Film Festival and earned him a nomination for (...)

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