Garbage, the City and Death

31 October 2015 marks the thirtieth anniversary of an event that proved historic not only in the theater world: In 1985 members of Frankfurt am Main’s Jewish community occupied the Kammerspiel theater’s stage to prevent the performance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play “Garbage, the City and Death.” Since then debates about the play have continued, (…)

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Thea Eymèsz dies

This year, 18 September was marked by the death of film editor Thea Eymèsz, who was known above all for her participation in numerous films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Her career in film began in the early 1960s in the animation studios of Bavaria film, and she went on to edit numerous reportages and industry (…)

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New DVD und Blu-ray editions

Over recent months several new home-cinema editions of Rainer Werner Fassbinder films have been released in the USA, Germany and Italy. The Criterion Collection has brought out THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT and THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS for the first time on Blu-ray. The renowned American label is known for its high-quality (…)

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Summer Salutations

The RWFF will be closed from 1 August 2015 until and including 4 September 2015. The seventieth anniversary of RWF’s birth has been extensively celebrated and our team is now taking a well deserved break. Before closing for the holidays, we would like to take this opportunity to announce that from September 2015 the RWFF (…)

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“Fassbinder – NOW” exhibition runs till 23 August 2015 with photographs by Jeff Wall

The Canadian artist Jeff Wall has engaged intensively with the aesthetics of the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The exhibition FASSBINDER – NOW, curated by the German Film Museum, Frankfurt am Main, in collaboration with the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and currently showing in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau (until Sunday, 23 August) explores not only Fassbinder work (…)

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