A chamber play about dependency and the economics of emotions On June 25, 1972, Fassbinder’s thirteenth feature film, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, premiered as a German competition entry at the Berlin Film Festival and earned him a nomination for the festival’s top award, the Golden Bear. The genesis of the film, as (…)

Video portal, web dossier and press publications marking the thirtieth anniversary of RWF’s death This European Championship summer would certainly have been a source of great delight for Fassbinder, who was a passionate football fan, often following a long day of filming by playing in the team he founded, “FC Alexanderplatz,” in what were sometimes (…)

“The Tenderness of Rainer Werner Fassbinder” This year marks the thirtieth anniversary not only of Fassbinder’s death but also of the Munich Film Festival, which runs from June 29 to July 7. The festival’s director, Diana Iljine, sees this shared anniversary as an “opportunity to present a very special homage commemorating perhaps the most significant (…)

New publications and reissues of standard works As the thirtieth year since RWF’s death, 2012 is of course also seeing a number of publications devoted to his life and work. Here we would like to provide you with a brief overview of books coming out this year. 1.”Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Theater als Provokation” by (…)

Commemorative event in the town of RWF’s birth, TV retrospective and DVD edition The year 1982 was one of strange and sad coincidences for the German film world. Romy Schneider and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who were planning to work together on a film adaptation of Piligrilli’s novel COCAIN, died within two weeks of one another, (…)