04/28/06
Christiane Maybach passed away

On April 12, 2006 Christiane Maybach died. As all Fassbinder fans know, she appeared in numerous RWF films. Without doubt the most significant role she played was at Fassbinder’s side in “Fox and His friends,” where she is Franz Biberkopf’s sister Hedwig. In his elaborate study of underprivileged (...)

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03/31/06
Hanna Schygulla Live at Berlin's Kammermusiksaal

On Sunday, April 9, 2006, at 8PM Hanna Schygulla will give a live performance at Berlin’s Kammermusiksaal (adjacent to the famous Berlin Philharmonie.) She will be the speaker in Haydn’s ‘The Seven Last Words of Our Savior’ -- performed by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the direction (...)

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03/28/06
Barbara Sukowa as Cassandra at Carnegie Call

On Friday March 31, 2006 at 7:30PM The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform, under the direction of its Music Director David Robertson, at New York City’s renowned Carnegie Hall. Contemporary Swiss composer Michael Jarell created a melodrama for actress and musical ensemble about the (...)

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03/20/06
Fine Cut - Juliane Lorenz talks with Roger Crittenden

One of the highlights concerning literature on film and film editing is a book that was recently published by Roger Crittenden. Fine Cuts - The Art of European Film Editing deals with master editors, among them: Agnès Guillemot - (Godard, Truffaut, Catherine Breillat) Roberto (...)

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03/13/06
Hanna Schygulla News

Hanna Schygulla was Fassbinder’s muse, and it is unthinkable to see his work without her. While she had a ‘round’ birthday recently and was honored with a special series at New York’s MoMA, she is still as popular as ever. We wish to share with our readers one of the recently published features (...)

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03/10/06
‚The Marriage of Maria Braun’ on stage in Berlin and Vienna

RWF’s theater plays have been popular for many years. Recently, we began to notice a tendency where directors increasingly adopt Fassbinder films for the stage. The most current endeavor is ‘The Marriage of Maria Braun’ that premiered in Berlin and Vienna in February. We would like to inform all (...)

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03/10/06
RWFF’s President Juliane Lorenz as member of the jury for the festival in Argentina’s Mar del Plata

Juliane Lorenz, the president of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, presently participates in the film festival of Mar del Plata in Argentina, where she serves as a jury member. The International Festival takes place between March 9 and 19, 2006. While we are eagerly awaiting (well (...)

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02/10/06
Berlinale Camera to be awarded to Michael Ballhaus

It is definitely not an exaggeration to call Michael Ballhaus the most famous contemporary German cameraman. He is one of his profession’s superstars and has been working for many years in Hollywood, where he is involved in gigantic movies. Among his regular collaborators is Martin Scorsese with (...)

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02/08/06
Fassbinder’s costume designer Barbara Baum in an interview

For more than a decade, from 1972 until 1982, the renowned costume designer Barbara Baum worked with Fassbinder. Among other movies, she created the costumes for “Effi Briest” (1972-74), “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (1979/80), and “Lola” (1981). To this day, her name is associated internationally with (...)

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02/08/06
Berlinale Camera to be awarded to Larry Kardish

Larry Kardish, MoMA’s Senior Curator for Film and Media, and Juliane Lorenz have been collaborating repeatedly since 1993. A pinnacle of their teamwork was the first complete Fassbinder retrospective in the United States which they co-curated. Its first venue took place, in January 1997, during (...)

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