Plays written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Tropfen auf heiße Steine (Water Drops on Burning Rocks)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1965-66).
dir. Klaus Weiße.
TheaterFestival, Munich.
1985.

Nur eine Scheibe Brot (Only a Slice of Bread)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1966).
dir. Georg Schuchter.
Volkstheater Wien/ Bregenzer Festspiele.
1995.

Axel Caesar Haarmann
Written and dir. by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the company.
Action-Theater, Munich.
April 1968.

Katzelmacher
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
dir. Peer Raben, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Action-Theater, Munich.
April 1968.

Chung
Written and dir. by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the company.
Action-Theater.
Street theater, Munich.
May 1968.

Orgie Ubuh
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peer Raben and the company, based on the play Ubu Roi (King Ubuh) by Alfred Jarry.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
antiteater, Munich.
August 1968.

lphigenie auf Tauris von Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Iphigenia at Tauris)
Written and dir. by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
antiteater, Munich.
October 1968.

Ajax
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on the play by Sophokles.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
antiteater, Munich.
December 1968.

Der amerikanische Soldat (The American Soldier)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peer Raben.
antiteater, Munich.
December 1968.

Die Bettleroper (The Beggar’s Opera)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on the play by John Gay.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
antiteater, Munich.
February 1969.

Preparadise Sorry Now
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
dir. Peer Raben.
antiteater, Munich.
March 1969.

Anarchie in Bayern (Anarchy in Bavaria)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peer Raben.
antiteater at Werkraumtheater of Kammerspiele, Munich.
June 1969.

Gewidmet Rosa von Praunheim (Dedicated to Rosa von Praunheim)
Written and dir. by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
antiteater, Munich.
1969.

Das Kaffeehaus (The Coffeehouse)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on the play by Carlo Goldoni.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peer Raben.
Theater der Freien Hansestadt Bremen.
June 1969.

Werwolf (Werewolf)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Harry Baer.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
antiteater at Berliner Forum Theater.
December 1969.

Das brennende Dorf (The Burning Village)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on the play by Lope de Vega.
dir. Peer Raben.
Theater der Freien Hansestadt Bremen.
November 1970.

Blut am Hals der Katze (Blood on a Cat’s Neck)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peer Raben.
antiteater at Städtischen Bühnen Nuremberg.
March 1971.

Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
dir. Peer Raben.
Landestheater Darmstadt.
June 1971.

Bremer Freiheit (Bremen Freedom)
Written and dir. by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Theater Bremen, Concordia.
December 1971.

Bibi
Written and dir. by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on the play by Heinrich Mann.
Theater Bochum.
January 1973.

Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod (Garbage, the City and Death)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Between 1975, the year it was written, and 2009, the play had never been publicly performed in Germany – apart from an amateur staging in Bochum in 1979 and a press performance on November 4, 1985 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt (dir. Dietrich Hilsdorf). On October 1 and 2, 2009, Roberto Ciulli and Helmut Schäfer realized the German premiere at Mülheim’s Theater an der Ruhr, where the play was part of a tripartite repertoire entitled FASSBINDER Only a Slice of Bread | Garbage, the City and Death | Blood on a Cat’s Neck.

The world premiere occurred in New York City in 1987 (dir. Nick Fracaro). Further stagings abroad include: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987 (dir. Klaus Hoffmeyer); Malmö, Sweden, 1989; Los Angeles, USA, 1997 (dir. Frédérique Michel); Milan, Italy, 1998 (dir. Elio de Capitani/Ferdinando Bruni); Tel Aviv, Israel, 1999 (dir. Yoram Loewenstein); The Hague, The Netherlands, 2002 (dir. Johan Doesburg); Paris, France, 2003 (dir. Pierre Maillet) and Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004 (dir. Jacob Schjodt). It was once again in Copenhagen that an interesting performance project took place in 2010 that was initiated by the private film and theater school Holberg (dir. Liv Helm). In this staging, the figure of the “rich Jew” was played by an Arab refugee. Further performances: Dublin, Ireland, 2010 (dir. Jane Mulcahy).