Born...
Thursday, 31 May 1945
Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany (Aged 37)
Died...
Thursday, 10 June 1982
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
CGiiiBase...
_2500bbff389c7493922f0eb65db5eb9f.jpg "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul")
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_d1ddca6289bab5108425cbc1ca981984.jpg "Beware of a Holy Whore")
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_f7c21f1dd3e919aa724782eaf1c34b81.jpg "City Tramp (The)")
4_106b2c82c20a95a55b7fb39879b5d77c.jpg "Despair")
_ebe226222ba10f5242d1fb8c4467d5e5.jpg "Fontane - Effi Briest")
_25fc7beaf4029a24946f3d62c49587fb.jpg "Fox and His Friends")
_95f26727a06795edde96d54b11b4ddcd.jpg "Germany in Autumn")
4_72b8884a1cf4226bd8162001da5a214d.jpg "In a Year of 13 Moons")
_46f2192a99994154a536ef48fd89ef82.jpg "Lili Marleen")
2_555120b80ab039f7cda4dd7611e802dd.jpg "Love is Colder Than Death")
_4b60e5039c62b900b89f8db9d3a42644.jpg "Niklashausen Journey (The)")
_2dff5ce215e4167d14bc00d81c549eea.jpg "Third Generation (The)")
_67bf1e4f42a2c95c22d6565576b764ea.jpg "Whity")
Filmography...
Features...
1982 : Querelle
1982 : Veronika Voss (Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss)
1981 : Lili Marleen
1981 : Lola
1979 : The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
1979 : The Third Generation (Die dritte Generation)
1978 : Despair
1978 : In a Year of 13 Moons (In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden)
1976 : Satan's Brew (Satansbraten)
1976 : Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette)
1975 : Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit)
1975 : Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel)
1974 : Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf)
1974 : Effi Briest (Fontane – Effi Briest oder)
1972 : The Merchant of Four Seasons (Händler der vier Jahreszeiten)
1972 : The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant)
1971 : Whity
1971 : Beware of a Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte)
1970 : Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest)
1970 : Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?)
1970 : The American Soldier (Der amerikanische Soldat)
1969 : Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe ist kälter als der Tod)
1969 : Katzelmacher (aka Cock Artist)
Television...
1980 : Berlin Alexanderplatz
1977 : Women in New York (Frauen in New York)
1977 : The Stationmaster's Wife (Bolwieser)
1976 : I Only Want You to Love Me (Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt)
1975 : Like a Bird on a Wire (Wie ein Vogel auf dem Draht)
1975 : Fear of Fear (Angst vor der Angst)
1974 : Nora Helmer
1974 : Martha
1973 : Jail Bait (Wildwechsel)
1973 : World on a Wire (Welt am Draht)
1972 : Eight Hours Are Not a Day (Acht Stunden sind kein Tag)
1972 : Bremen Freedom (Bremer Freiheit)
1971 : Rio das Mortes (Rio das Mortes)
1971 : Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Pioniere in Ingolstadt)
1970 : The Coffee House (Das Kaffeehaus)
1970 : The Niklashausen Journey (Die Niklashauser Fahrt)
Shorts...
1981 : Theater in Trance (Theater im Trance)
1978 : Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst)
1966 : The City Tramp (Der Stadtstreicher)
1966 : The Little Chaos (Das Kleine Chaos)
1965 : This Night
Biographies about...
- Baer, Harry. Ya Dormiré cuando este Muerto, Seix Barrall, 1986.
- Elsaesser, Thomas. Fassbinder's Germany. History Identity Subject, Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
- Hayman, Ronald. Fassbinder Film Maker, Simon & Schuster, 1984.
- Katz, Robert. Love is colder than Death : The Life and Time of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Random House, 1987.
- Kardish, Laurence ed. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Museum of Modern Art New York, 2002.
- Lorenz, Juliane (et al., ed). Chaos as Usual: Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Applause Books, 1997.
- Pipolo, Tony, Straight from the Heart: reviewing the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Cineaste, 2004.
- Rufell, Joe. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database, 2002.
- Sontag, Susan. The Imperfect Storm: Fox and his Muse, Interview with Hanna Schygulla, The Village Voice. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
- Thomsen, Christian Braad. Fassbinder: Life and Work of a Provocative Genius, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
- Watson, Wallace, The Bitter Tears of RWF, Sight and Sound, 1992.
- Watson, Wallace Steadman. Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and Public Art, University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Films about...
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1977) – German documentary by Florian Hopf and Maximiliane Mainka. (29 minutes)
- Life Stories: A Conversation with RWF (Lebensläufe: RWF, 1982) – German TV documentary by Peter W. Jansen. (48 minutes)
- RWF Last Works (RWF Letzte Arbeiten, 1982) – German TV documentary by Wolf Gremm during the shooting of Kamikaze 1989 and Querelle.
- Room 666 (Chambre 666, 1982) – Fassbinder participated in this Wim Wenders documentary project. (50 minutes)
- I Don't Just Want You to Love Me (1992) – German feature-length documentary. (90 minutes)
- The Many Women of Fassbinder (1997)
- Life, Love and Celluloid (1998) – documentary film by Juliane Lorenz. (90 minutes)
- Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002) – documentary by Robert Fischer and co-written by Ulli Lommel, who also appears. (57 minutes)
- Fassbinder's Women (2005) – French thematic anthology of film clips. (25 minutes)
- The Women of Fassbinder (Frauen über R. W. Fassbinder 1992) – German television documentary by Thomas Honickel. (60 minutes)