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 (…)

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ showing from June 14 to 16 It is fifty years since the Élysée Treaty was signed by France and Germany and as part of the program of events accompanying the exhibition “De l’Allemagne, 1800-1939. De Friedrich à Beckmann” Fassbinder’s magnum opus is being shown in its full length under the Louvre pyramid. The (…)

Commemorating a resistance fighter, poet and essayist On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 8 p.m., the co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and political activist Stéphane Frédéric Hessel is being commemorated. He died in February this year. In 2010 his essay “Time for Outrage!” attracted worldwide attention due to its trenchant critique of (…)

A black leather jacket and 10 Cuba Libres Lou Castel was born Ulv Quarzéll in Columbia (Bogota) on May 28, 1943 to an Irish father and an Italian mother. He moved to Europe as a young man and began training as an actor at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. His first appearance on (…)