Premiere on March 8 in the Theater der Altstadt In 1995, what is probably one of RWF’s most well-known films among the wider public was adapted for the stage. Fear Eats the Soul tells the story of Emmi and Ali, an unlikely couple whose artlessness and honesty are both revelatory and disarming. The story is (…)

Teatro de La Abadía brings the first Spanish production of The Coffee House to the stage Between February and April 2013, the Goethe Institute in Madrid is presenting an extensive and varied program around the theme of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The series of events begins on February 27 with the first ever Spanish production of (…)

Other productions in Halle (Saale) and Munich Fassbinder‘s most performed and translated drama is once again living up to its reputation as one of his key works. This spring the play is being performed in France and in Germany at several locations. The Compagnie Le Chat Foin and its director Yann Dacosta have created an (…)

THE SLEEP OF REASON in Berlin’s Moviemento on February 5 To mark the seventy-fifth birthday of the filmmaker Ula Stöckl, the Moviemento cinema in Berlin is screening her most successful film THE SLEEP OF REASON, for which she received Germany’s top film award, the Deutscher Filmpreis, in 1985. The film tells the story of a (…)

Premiere on February 1, 2013 on the main stage in Memmingen The second part of the current theater season at the Landestheater Schwaben is opening with this small but finely wrought production of one of RWF’s early works. Katzelmacher was originally written and produced as a theater play by Fassbinder in 1968 and turned into (…)