Theater scholar, educator, psychologist and author Behind every strong person stands another strong person who perhaps makes everything possible in the first place. Wouldn’t it be nice if a series of such relationships could become a human chain? Today we would like to warmly wish Professor Pea Fröhlich a very happy birthday. It was Pea (…)

The grand old man of German television film Zadek, Zadek and then Fassbinder again! Known above all for the roles of the charmeur and grand seigneur he played with such élan for the German TV broadcaster ZDF during the 1980s and 1990s, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau is also an accomplished theater actor. Born in Kiel in 1928, (…)

Katzelmacher was an initiation Doris Mattes died on July 23, 2013, not long before her seventy-fifth birthday. As an actress, she was involved in the foundation of Munich’s action-theater (later the anti-theater), where in April 1968 she appeared in RWF’s production of Katzelmacher, playing the role of Gunda, a woman caught in a lower middle (…)

Ingrid Caven turns 75 On August 3 Ingrid Caven turns 75 and we would like to mark this occasion by raising our glasses to her and singing a very hearty Happy Birthday. The entire membership of the Rainer Fassbinder Foundation sends her their warm congratulations. We would also like to take this opportunity to point (…)

Panel representing three generations covering 45 years of women’s movement In 2013 the Deutsche Kinemathek is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. It is marking this special year with the series “Filmspotting – Exploring the Deutsche Kinemathek’s Film Archive.” The film selected for the month of July is Ula Stöckl’s 1968 debut work THE CAT HAS NINE (…)