“Wake Up and Dream” in German bookshops from October 11 This year Hanna Schygulla turns 70, a milestone she is marking with the publication of her first complete autobiography. The book will be presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 9 to 13, with the author herself in attendance at the stand of the (…)

A discerning film historian and refined stylist The library in the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin was already named after him in 2006. The former director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Hans Helmut Prinzler, who was born on September 23, 1938 in Berlin, is a renowned scholar and chronicler of the more than one-hundred-year history (…)

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 (…)