Special edition of early works plus WORLD ON A WIRE on Blu-ray The Criterion Collection has just released the DVD box set EARLY FASSBINDER onto the American market. The ECLIPSE SERIES 39 box set includes five films: LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH (LIEBE IST KÄLTER ALS DER TOD) KATZELMACHER GODS OF THE PLAGUE (GÖTTER DER (…)

From September until October en suite This fall finds Irm Hermann busy once again. Starting September 13, she will play a double role in Stefan Pucher’s Woyzeck production. In his staging, she will be the story-telling Grandmother as well as the fool Karl. Surely, these portrayals provide further proof of her versatility; she continues to (…)

DIF and RWFF present “Fassbinder – NOW. Film and Video Art” “I’m building a house with my films. Some are the cellar, others are the walls, and others are the window.” From October 30, Fassbinder will once again have a fixed address in Frankfurt. At least for nine months … During the 1974/75 theater season (…)

Premieres in Germany, France and Belgium To mark the start of the new theater season, we would like to provide fans of RWF’s theater oeuvre with an overview of new and restaged productions in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Dortmund, Bochum, Marburg, Lübeck und Liège. Coming newsletters will include more in-depth information about a number of these (…)

In the service of a brilliant humorist Heinz Meier was born February 17, 1930 in Perwissau in what was then East Prussia. In 1953, while still a university student, he co-founded of the Wallgraben Theater in Freiburg, a private theater that he later owned and ran until 2003. It provided him with a stage on (…)