09/24/09
“Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?” to premiere in Switzerland

Starting September 25 in Zurich’s Schauspielhaus am Pfauen

The first stage adaptation of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Michael Fengler movie of the same title was created under Michael Thalheimer’s direction and produced for 2003-04 season of the Schauspiel Frankfurt.
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09/18/09
Günter Lamprecht to read Berlin Alexanderplatz

September 19 at Berlin’s Schlossparktheater

Recently reopened, the Schlossparktheater has invited Günter Lamprecht to the capital for a reading from Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz. At almost 80, “Fassbinder’s (quintessential) Franz Biberkopf” will demonstrate (...)

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09/01/09
Hanna Schygulla to appear in Berlin with her musical biography

“Aus meinem Leben” (“From My Life”), September 1-6 at Berlin’s “Bar jeder Vernunft”

At the beginning of September, Hanna Schygulla will present her newest program for an entire week at Berlin’s “Bar jeder Vernunft”. Her cycle “Aus meinem Leben”, a mix of music and biography, has (...)

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08/04/09
WORLD ON A WIRE: NEW MASTER

RWFF and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (The German Federal Cultural Foundation) are partners again
 
After the successful large-sale project, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ Remastered, which the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation accomplished in tandem with The German Federal Cultural (...)

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07/24/09
Rosel Zech as Mother Courage at the Luisenburg Festspiele

Open-air performances in Wunsiedel, Bavaria
 
The Luisenburg Festspiele, a theater festival located in the Franconian town of Wunsiedel, will continue their open-air performances until the end of August. Each year, this festival shows classical and popular plays in addition to (...)

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06/26/09
Forty Years Ago: RWF’s LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH

The film was booed after its Berlinale premiere at the Zoo Palast

A film about love and violence – this is how RWF summed-up his first feature film during the press conference held on June 26, 1969. Fassbinder also used the word anarchy. In a long conversation he had with the (...)

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05/29/09
A Rarity on Germany’s National TV Station NDR: WOMEN IN NEW YORK

To be aired overnight from June 2 to 3, 2009
 
German TV station NDR’s late-night broadcast for more

 
05/18/09
Film fellow Hark Bohm turns 70

A memorable face in front of and behind the camera

 
Hark Bohm was born on May 18, 1939, in Hamburg. After he had already begun to train as a lawyer, he met his later wife, Natalia Bowakow, outside a cinema – of all places. In 1968/69, he shared an apartment for a while with Volker (...)

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05/14/09
Karl Scheydt dead

Starting in 1970, he starred in numerous Fassbinder movies
 
We recently received the news that the actor Karl Scheydt died on April 30, 2009 at the age of 69. One of his most famous roles is undoubtedly the Vietnam veteran Ricky in THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (1970). Other (...)

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05/08/09
IN BERLIN by Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari

Film premiere on May 11 and theatrical release on May 14, 2009
 
In this film, Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari trace the changes that have taken place in Berlin and try to encapsulate on screen the energy of a city that, twenty years after the fall of the Wall, has found (...)

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