On 21 December the actor and director Ulli Lommel turns 70. When Rainer Werner Fassbinder made his first feature film, LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH, Lommel was already a known quantity in Germany, having played opposite such cinema greats as Maria Schell, Heinz Rühmann and Hildegard Knef in the 1960s. In 1969 he began a (…)

On 14 December, the actress Eva Mattes will celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Mattes was still a teenager when she began her film and theater career, giving particularly memorable performances as a dubbing actor for the children’s TV series LASSIE and the German-language version of PIPPI LONGSTOCKING. She later became one of the most well-known faces (…)

The German Film Museum is presenting an expanded version of the exhibition Fassbinder — NOW. Film and Video Art in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau over an area of 1200 square meters from 6 May to 23 August 2015. The exhibition explores Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s way of working and illustrates the continuing relevance of his cinematic work by (…)

The Swiss actress Annemarie Düringer died on 26 November in Baden, Austria. It was her eighty-ninth birthday. Düringer was known for her numerous theater and film roles. From 1949 until shortly before her death, she was a member of Vienna’s Burgtheater ensemble, where she worked with directors such as Peter Zadek, Hans Neuenfels and Claus (…)