BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ showing from June 14 to 16 It is fifty years since the Élysée Treaty was signed by France and Germany and as part of the program of events accompanying the exhibition “De l’Allemagne, 1800-1939. De Friedrich à Beckmann” Fassbinder’s magnum opus is being shown in its full length under the Louvre pyramid. The (…)

Commemorating a resistance fighter, poet and essayist On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 8 p.m., the co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and political activist Stéphane Frédéric Hessel is being commemorated. He died in February this year. In 2010 his essay “Time for Outrage!” attracted worldwide attention due to its trenchant critique of (…)

A black leather jacket and 10 Cuba Libres Lou Castel was born Ulv Quarzéll in Columbia (Bogota) on May 28, 1943 to an Irish father and an Italian mother. He moved to Europe as a young man and began training as an actor at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. His first appearance on (…)

Premiere in the Schauspielhaus Dortmund on June 2, 2013 The highly anticipated theater production of World on a Wire is now coming to the stage in Dortmund and providing a counterpoint to the version seen in Fassbinder’s film. Adapting the two-part science fiction film for the stage is proving a real challenge for dramaturg Anne-Kathrin (…)

Liselotte Irmgard Pempeit, later divorced Fassbinder and widowed Eder, mother of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was born on October 6, 1922 in Schmiede/Kowall  in the municipality of Danzig. She was the second child of Agnes und Rudolf Pempeit. Following the birth of her brother, Kurt Pempeit, in 1925, she grew up with a childless uncle and (…)