We return from the summer break with the happy news that on 29 August the actress Margit Carstensen was awarded the Götz George Prize. The award, which includes 10,000 euros, was founded in 2018 and recognizes “a merited and fascinating artistic life”. Its primary focus is on older actors who are “no longer in the (…)

On 20 May, the Fassbinder Center opened its doors to the public for the first time as part of the celebrations marking the seventieth birthday of the Deutsches Filminstitut (DFF). The center is providing a new home for not only almost all of the filmmaker’s artistic estate but also many other archive holdings, such as (…)

We would like to begin by wishing a happy birthday to the actor Günter Lamprecht, known for his many film and theater roles, who turned 89 on 21 January. He appeared in several of Fassbinder’s works but his most significant role for the director was undoubtedly the television series BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (1980) based on Alfred (…)

It is not only Christmas that is just around the corner but also the birthday of one of the most important figures in the Fassbinder cosmos. On 25 December Hanna Schygulla will turn 75, and we would like to warmly congratulate her on reaching this milestone. Along with early work with the Action-Theater and the (…)