In 1981 Fassbinder spent 14 days in Cologne with a camera following the progress of the “Theater der Welt” festival, which had been founded the same year by the German center of the International Theater Institute. The result, RWF’s only (...)

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Following its DVD and Blu-ray release on September 15, 2011 in Germany by EuroVideo, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME is now being released in France by Carlotta Films for the first time on DVD (...)

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Ursula Strätz was born in Schweinfurt on September 28, 1940. In March 1967 she and Horst Söhnlein founded the Action-Theater in Munich. It was there, some six months later, that the author, actor and director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who was then (...)

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More than half of the films made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder are now available worldwide on DVD. On September 15 EuroVideo is bringing out two further essential Fassbinder works in DVD versions that include extensive (...)

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On August 20, 1981, part 3 of the BRD Trilogy premiered at the Theater Walhalla in Wiesbaden. LOLA was a co-production by Rialto Film, Trio-Film and the West German television broadcaster WDR. The script was written by Peter (...)

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Born on August 13, 1931, in an Eastern Pomeranian village school, Theo Hinz has experienced the full breadth of changes that have seen Germany enlarge, shrink and enlarge again. After completing his schooling and earning a (...)

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The 64th Locarno Film Festival’s Special Program will feature a screening of Daniel Schmid’s SHADOW OF ANGELS (1975) on August 10 at 4PM at the Cinema La Sala, presenting a print with new color grading. (...)

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The actor, scriptwriter, prop maker, and set designer Kurt Raab was born on July 20, 1941 in the Bohemian town of Bergreichenstein, the son of a farm hand. While attending high school at Straubing, he met the future co-founder of the Action Theater and (...)

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Shot in 1970 in Almeria, Spain, the production cost of 680,000 deutschmarks made Fassbinder’s WHITY his most expensive to date when it premiered at Berlin’s 21^st International Film Festival on July 2, 1971. The public reacted (...)

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As part of the conference “Immersion—Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on a Key Concept in Aesthetics and Media Studies” being held at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University from June 16 – 18, 2011, there will be a screening of (...)

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