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05/07/13
Remembering Liselotte Eder-Fassbinder on the 20th anniversary of her death
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 (...)
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05/03/13
Jeanne Moreau in A LADY IN PARIS
A remarkable testament to aging with dignity
France loves its icons, one of whom is certainly the grande dame of French cinema Jeanne Moreau. In A LADY IN PARIS, Moreau gives a wonderful performance as the flinty Frida, who proves more than a challenge for Anne, played by (...)
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04/27/13
Congratulations to Barbara Sukowa
LOLA for the best actress in a leading role
At the sixty-third presentation of the German Film Awards held at Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast, Barbara Sukowa received the Best Actress award for her performance in Margarethe von Trotta’s HANNAH ARENDT.
It is the (...)
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04/25/13
US premiere of “In a Year with 13 Moons”
Yale Repertory Theatre – April 26 to May 18 2013
Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff have adapted the script from Fassbinder’s film while retaining the original dialog. The English translation is by Louisa Proske. Having staged over 70 plays, director Robert Woodruff is now an (...)
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04/21/13
Blood on the Cat’s Neck in the USA
From April 25 at the Torn Space Theater in Buffalo
Blood on the Cat’s Neck is another one of Fassbinder’s commissioned works and was written at the beginning of the 1970s for the Städtische Bühnen in Nuremberg. The premiere by the antitheater ensemble took place on March (...)
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04/18/13
Water drops on Burning Rocks in Liège and Vienna
Innovative productions in April and May
Two interesting productions of Fassbinder’s early work Water Drops on Burning Rocks are currently running in France and Austria. The Festival Emulation in Liège has included the 2012 production by the young Belgian director Caspar Langhoff (...)
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04/11/13
The Burning Village at the Stadttheater in Constance
Premiere on April 19 directed by Andrej Woron
Fassbinder’s play The Burning Village (Das brennende Dorf), which is based in the seventeenth-century drama Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega, is being presented in the current theater season by the Stadttheater in Constance. RWF (...)
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04/04/13
Elisabeth Trissenaar in La finta giardiniera – The Gates of Love in Berlin
Mozart’s opera with a revised libretto by Hans Neuenfels
In the current season Elisabeth Trissenaar is appearing in the role of the Contessa in three performances of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at the Staatsoper Berlin. The performances are on April 6, 11 and 19, (...)
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04/02/13
Italian premiere of Veronika Voss
From April 4 in the Teatro Sala Fontana in Milan
The stage version of Veronika Voss, which had its German premiere at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in September 2010, is now opening in Italy. The stage version is based on the film script written by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea (...)
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03/21/13
Preparadise Sorry Now in Freiburg
Premiere on March 22 at the Stadttheater Preparadise Sorry Now was staged for the first time by Munich’s Anti-Theater ensemble almost exactly 44 years ago. Now a new production with clear references to the present and directed by Annette Pullen is opening in (...)
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