Personal Info
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born in 1945 and died in 1982. He was one of the most significant directors of the “New German Cinema”. In just 13 years, between 1969 and 1982, he made 44 films, including Katzelmacher (1969), The Merchant of Four Seasons (Der Haendler der vier Jahreszeiten, 1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Traenen der Petra von Kant, 1972), Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf, 1973), Fontane Effi Briest (1974), Despair (1978), The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Lili Marleen (1981), Lola (1981), and Querelle (1982), among others. He wrote 14 plays, revised six others and directed 25. He wrote four radio plays and 37 screenplays and worked on a further 13 scripts with other writers. Fassbinder's films are among the most valid social documents produced between the late 60s and early 80s in Germany; his plays are among the most performed of any post-war German dramatist.
Filmography
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (14 Parts) (Berlin Alexanderplatz (14 Teile))
- Effi Briest (Fontane Effi Briest)
- FEAR EATS THE SOUL (ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF)
- GERMANY IN AUTUMN (DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST)
- Katzelmacher
- Life, Love & Celluloid
- LILI MARLEEN
- MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, THE (EHE DER MARIA BRAUN, DIE)
- MARTHA
- Merchant of Four Seasons, The (Haendler der vier Jahreszeiten, Der)
- Reverse Shot - Rebellion of the Filmmakers (Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher)
- Room 666 (Chambre 666)
- VERONIKA VOSS (SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS, DIE)