On August 20, 1981, part 3 of the BRD Trilogy premiered at the Theater Walhalla in Wiesbaden. LOLA was a co-production by Rialto Film, Trio-Film and the West German television broadcaster WDR. The script was written by Peter (...)

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Born on August 13, 1931, in an Eastern Pomeranian village school, Theo Hinz has experienced the full breadth of changes that have seen Germany enlarge, shrink and enlarge again. After completing his schooling and earning a (...)

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The 64th Locarno Film Festival’s Special Program will feature a screening of Daniel Schmid’s SHADOW OF ANGELS (1975) on August 10 at 4PM at the Cinema La Sala, presenting a print with new color grading. It (...)

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The actor, scriptwriter, prop maker, and set designer Kurt Raab was born on July 20, 1941 in the Bohemian town of Bergreichenstein, the son of a farm hand. While attending high school at Straubing, he met the future co-founder of the Action Theater and (...)

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Shot in 1970 in Almeria, Spain, the production cost of 680,000 deutschmarks made Fassbinder’s WHITY his most expensive to date when it premiered at Berlin’s 21^st International Film Festival on July 2, 1971. The public reacted somewhat (...)

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As part of the conference “Immersion—Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on a Key Concept in Aesthetics and Media Studies” being held at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University from June 16 – 18, 2011, there will be a screening of the newly (...)

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On June 15, 2011 at 8PM Fassbinder’s ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL will be screened as part of the series “Zu Gast im filmkunst 66” (“Visiting filmkunst 66”), which the Berlin movie-house began in March. The idea behind it is to bring first-rate (...)

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The last major screening of Fassbinder’s work in Australia was in August 2010, when a newly restored version of the renowned filmmaker’s WORLD ON A WIRE was shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Now a new campaign is (...)

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In 1929, one year after premiering in Dresden, “Pioneers in Ingolstadt,” Marieluise Fleisser’s play set in rural Bavaria, opened at Berlin’s Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. Bertolt Brecht, who had contributed decisively to the (...)

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February 28, 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifest, one of the most important documents in German film history. Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the representatives. Apart from the jubilee (...)

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