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RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER - Writer, Director, Editor & Producer
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born on in the Bavarian town of Bad Wörishofen
in 1945. Eternally affiliated with the German New Wave cinema, and famous for
his wild behaviour and a life plagued by contradictions.
Also a playwright his first play, Katzelmacher, premiered in April 1968. In 1969,
Fassbinder made his first feature-length film, Love is Colder than Death which
was booed at the Berlin Film Festival. Fassbinder's breakthrough came with his
next film, Katzelmacher (1969). His commercial breakthrough was The Mer-
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chant of Four Seasons (1971), his international breakthrough Ali-Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
(Inter national Critics Prize at Cannes). In 1971 he was a founding member of the "Filmverlag
der Autoren" with Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog.
His biggest success came with The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), part 1 of his BRD-Trilogy. The TV-series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and Effie Briest (1974) are two of his best-known adaptations. His last film, Querelle, was shot in 1982.
To describe Fassbinder as prolific would be an understatement, having made 41 movies in 14 years, and working as an actor, producer, theatre manager, composer, designer, editor, and cameraman. He died in 1982 of drugs overdose, it is now considered to mark the end of the German New Wave.
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