On 13 May at 8 p.m. a reading will be held in the Charlottenburg bookshop Autorenbuchhandlung. The reading will consist in part of a presentation by Juliane Maria Lorenz and the actor Patrick Güldenberg from Berlin’s Volksbühne theater of unpublished texts by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In addition there will be readings from Im Land des (…)

On 31 May Rainer Werner Fassbinder would have turned 70, and, as is appropriate for such an anniversary, this month is seeing an especially large number of events devoted to RWF and his artistic legacy. This year’s Berlin Theater Festival, or Theatertreffen, is placing a particular emphasis on Fassbinder. Between 1 and 17 May, the (…)

The Munich Film Museum is holding a retrospective throughout May dedicated to the work of three of the most renowned representatives of New German Cinema: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter and Wim Wenders. The curators, Stefan Drößler and Rainer Gansera, have taken the fact that the three filmmakers were all born in 1945 as the (…)

On 30 April Annekatrin Hendel’s documentary FASSBINDER, produced by IT WORKS! Medien in cooperation with the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and based on an idea by Juliane Maria Lorenz, is being released in German cinemas. In the film Hendel traces the development of Fassbinder’s career without drawing a strict dividing line between life and art. (…)

With the 52nd BERLIN THEATER FESTIVAL (1 to 17 May) marking the seventieth year since the birth of the director, actor and author with its “FOCUS FASSBINDER” program and the German Film Institute/German Film Museum (DIF/DFM) presenting the EXHIBITION Fassbinder – NOW in collaboration with the Fassbinder Foundation at the Martin-Gropius-Bau (6 May to 23 (…)