Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rejissor

1945-05-31 – 1982-06-10 · Bad Wörishofen, Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career less than fifteen years, he completed forty feature-length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, and four radio plays.

He had tortured, personal relationships with the actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity.

Fassbinder died in June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. His death has often been cited as the event that ended the New German Cinema movement.

• Angst essen Seele auf (1974) — Eugen, Director, Production Design, Producer, Original Music Composer, Screenplay
• Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979) — Peddler, Editor, Idea, Director
• Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (1972) — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Querelle (1982) — Director, Editor, Screenplay
• Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982) — Kinobesucher (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer
• Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975) — Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf, Writer, Director, Producer
• Lola (1981) — Director, Screenplay, Editor, Line Producer
• Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (2000) — Writer
• Peter von Kant (2022) — Original Story
• Chinesisches Roulette (1977) — Writer, Director
• Lili Marleen (1981) — Günther Weissenborn (uncredited), Editor, Director, Screenplay
• In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) — Director, Art Direction, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
• Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (1970) — Director, Editor, Screenplay
• Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (1972) — Zucker, Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer, Producer
• Martha (1974) — Director, Screenplay
• Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (1971) — Sascha, Writer, Director, Editor
• Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1970) — Franz, Editor, Screenplay, Director
• Katzelmacher (1969) — Jorgos, Screenplay, Production Design, Director, Editor, Theatre Play
• Fontane Effi Briest (1974) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Die dritte Generation (1979) — Screenplay, Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
• Despair (1978) — Director, Editor
• Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973) — Wittowski, Producer
• Satansbraten (1976) — Director, Writer
• Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (1975) — Director, Writer