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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement. He directed over 40 films that span a variety of genres; frequently his work blends elements of Hollywood melodrama with social criticism and avant-garde techniques. His films, according to…
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entertainment · German filmmaker (1945–1982) · screenwriter · playwright · film director · actor · film editor · television director · cinematographer · film producer · film actor · theatre director · also Rainer Werner Fassbinder, R. W. Fassbinder, Rajner Verner Fasbinder, Raïner Berner Phasmpinter, Franz Walsch, Rainer W. Fassbinder
Born 31 May 1945 · Died 10 June 1982 · Q44426
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2026· 2 entries
“was the first person who wanted to see me the way I was. He made me aware that the character I was playing was also about myself”
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2025· 1 entry
The New York Times: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman – a freewheeling and insightful study of the film-maker’s allure
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: The Beauty and Brutality of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, as Told by François Ozon and Hanna Schygulla
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Casting review – film-set furore is a meta-salute to Fassbinder
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The Film Stage: First Trailer for Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biopic Enfant Terrible
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2018· 2 entries
SFGate: Rainer Werner Fassbinder ’70s TV series ‘Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day’ at BAMPFA
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The New Yorker: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Rare TV Series
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Fass and the furious: the remarkable career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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2016· 2 entries
IndieWire: ‘Kamikaze 89’ Trailer: Watch Rainer Werner Fassbinder In His Final Acting Role
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The New Yorker: The Documentaries They Deserve: Hannah Arendt and Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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2015· 2 entries
IndieWire: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Top 10 Favorite Films
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Artnet: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Legendary German Filmmaker Who Lived Fast and Died Young, Endures in Contemporary Art
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2014· 1 entry
Time: Still Life with Fassbinder: A Master Filmmaker, Frame by Frame
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2011· 1 entry
Cleveland.com: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's lost classic, 'World on a Wire,' showing at Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque
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2009· 1 entry
At the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim; filmed in 1976 as Schatten der Engel by Daniel Schmid)
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2000· 1 entry
By François Ozon as Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes)
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1982· 3 entries
Won Golden Bear for Veronika Voss (1982).
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Died 1982-06-10.
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And dedicated his last film, Querelle, to Salem
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1979· 3 entries
Awarded German Film Award for Best Direction for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979).
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Awarded David di Donatello Luchino Visconti (1979).
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“Some are the cellars, others the walls, still others the windows. But I hope in the end it will be a house.”
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1978· 4 entries
Awarded German Film Award for Best Direction for Despair (1978).
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His last low-budget and very personal ventures (In a Year of 13 Moons and The Third Generation) he would concentrate on making films that were becoming increasingly garish and stylized
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Fassbinder ended the relationship in April 1978.
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A glimpse into their troubled relationship can be seen in Fassbinder's episode for Germany in Autumn (1978).
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1977· 3 entries
Hermann became romantically involved with another man and became pregnant by him
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The New Yorker Theater in Manhattan held a Fassbinder Festival
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Was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival
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1975· 1 entry
“It is certainly the first film in which the characters are homosexuals, without homosexuality being made into a problem. In films, plays or novels, if homosexuals appear, the homosexuality was the problem, or it was a comic turn. But here homosexuality is shown as completely normal, and the problem is something quite different, it”
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1974· 5 entries
Awarded Grimme-Preis for World on a Wire (1974).
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Won Sutherland Trophy for Martha (1974).
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Aged 29, he took directorial control over the Theater am Turm (TAT) of Frankfurt; when this project ended in failure and controversy, he became less interested in theatre
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Due to Salem's chronic alcoholism and tendency to become violent when he drank
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Fassbinder finally ended the relationship in 1974, due to Salem's chronic alcoholism and tendency to become violent when he drank.
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded German Film Award for Best Feature Film for The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972).
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1971· 4 entries
Awarded German Film Award for Best Direction for Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1971).
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Through 1977, his films brought him international attention, with films modeled, to ironic effect, on the melodramas Douglas Sirk made in Hollywood in the 1950s
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Fassbinder began a relationship with El Hedi ben Salem, a Moroccan Berber who had left his wife and five children the previous year, after meeting him at a gay bathhouse in Paris
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Kaufmann appeared in 14 of Fassbinder's films, with the lead role in Whity (1971).
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded German Film Award for Best Screenplay for Katzelmacher (1970).
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Fassbinder married Ingrid Caven, an actress who regularly appeared in his films
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1969· 3 entries
Awarded Gerhart Hauptmann prize (1969).
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When he was 24, Fassbinder centered his career on directing films but maintained an intermittent foothold in the theater until his death
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While portraying the lead role in the TV film Baal under the direction of Volker Schlöndorff, Fassbinder met Günther Kaufmann, a black Bavarian actor who had a minor role in the film
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1967· 1 entry
With whom he staged some of his earliest productions
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1963· 1 entry
Aged 18, Fassbinder returned to Munich with plans to attend night school with the idea to eventually study drama
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1951· 1 entry
Liselotte Pempeit and Helmut Fassbinder divorced
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-05-31.
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1876· 1 entry
Whity centers on the title character, a mulatto who works as the obsequious servant in the mansion of a dysfunctional family in the American South
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