Final event on November 17 and 18 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 (.CHB), the Berlin cinema Zeughauskino, the RWFF and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. (…)

In the Skala and in Friedbergs Bar-Theater Two productions of Fassbinder’s play about the British serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are being staged simultaneously this autumn at two German-language theaters. Fassbinder wrote the play in 1969 as a polemical response to Paradise Now, one of the most well-known productions by the “Living Theater,” (…)

From November 8 in Nantes and from November 13 at the Festival d’Automne, Paris Following its world premiere in New York in January this year, author and director Jay Scheib’s extraordinary production World of Wires is now coming to Europe. The play will be performed in a number of cities in France in the original (…)

Am 3. Novemberin der Berliner Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche Die Sing-Akademie zu Berlin präsentiert zum 150. Geburtstag des Komponisten Claude Debussy das Oratorium Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien nach einer Textvorlage von Gabriele d’Annunzio. In der Rolle des Heiligen Sebastian wird Hanna Schygulla zu sehen sein. Der Regisseur Christian Filips hat das Stück unter der musikalischen Leitung von (…)

Stories about workers determined to use their own initiative On October 29, 1972, the first part of Fassbinder’s five-part family series flickered across West German TV screens. Over the next months, the public broadcaster ARD showed all five episodes, in each case on a Saturday evening in the prime-time slot: I. Jochen and Marion, (October (…)