“The Man with the Ice Eyes” was the title of the Bild newspaper’s article marking Udo Kier’s eightieth birthday on 14 October. Kier, known for his distinctive and striking appearance, has had a career that is as dazzling as it is difficult to categorize. He has almost 300 entries in the IMDb film database and (…)

This year Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF) is celebrating a double anniversary: the film institute has existed for 75 years, and the museum for 45 years. The DFF maintains one of the largest film archives in Germany. In 2019, this collection was expanded with the addition of the estate of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, which is (…)

25.03.2024 Newsletter March 2024 In October and November, the Zurich Filmpodium presented the series “Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Somewhere, a Tenderness,” the opening of which was attended by RWFF President Juliane Maria Lorenz-Wehling. The program was curated by students from the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich as part of the “Encounter RWF” (…)

In November, the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, now in its 72nd year, once again hosted the presentation of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award for the best screenplay. The jury, composed of the film directors Goran Stolevski and Denis Dercourt and the actress Elisa Schlott, awarded the prize, endowed with 15,000 euros and sponsored by the (…)

Recent months have brought news of a several deaths of figures connected with the life and work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. On June 1, for example, Margit Carstensen, one of the most important and distinctive actresses to appear in Fassbinder’s films, passed away. Carstensen’s best-known leading roles include the serial killer Geesche Gottfried in BREMEN (…)