12 examples of “Fassbinder’s Munich” screening from April to June All the films selected for this retrospective marking the thirtieth anniversary of Fassbinder’s death have one thing in common: they are set and were shot in the Bavarian capital and its environs. This year Munich’s theaters are presenting several of RWF’s works, and the city’s (…)

2011/12 season features works from the established canon All over Germany theaters are marking the thirtieth anniversary of RWF’s death with productions of his work. 2012 is seeing an unprecedented number of concurrent productions of Fassbinder works on German-language stages. We would like to provide an overview here of works currently being staged. It is (…)

INSPIRATION – PRODUCTION – TRANSFORMATION On the weekend of March 23-25, the Fassbinder Festival marking the 30th anniversary of the filmmaker’s death reaches its initial highpoint at Munich’s Residenztheater. On Friday, March 23 INSPIRATION will be the focus of a discursive examination. It begins with a screening of Christoph Schlingensief’s 1996 film DIE 120 TAGE (…)

International productions in the Residenztheater’s Marstall building in Munich In this commemorative year of 2012, the Residenztheater is setting a major milestone in the city where everything began for RWF with the Action Theater and later the antiteater ensemble. In March and April, an international festival will bring together a range of European theater directors (…)

Premiere on February 23, 2012 in Dortmund at the Theater im Depot The seventh production by the Theater glassbooth is a stage adaptation of Fassbinder’s 1975 film of the same name. SATAN’S BREW (SATANSBRATEN) is a coproduction with the Theater im Depot, and its premiere on February 23, 2012 will open the comprehensive series of (…)