Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) — Director
2. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) — Director
3. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) — Director
4. Querelle (1982) — Director
5. Veronika Voss (1982) — Director
6. Fox and His Friends (1975) — Director
7. Lola (1981) — Director
8. Chinese Roulette (1977) — Director
9. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970) — Director
10. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) — Director
11. Lili Marleen (1981) — Director
12. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972) — Director
13. World on a Wire (1973) — Director
14. Martha (1974) — Director
15. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) — Director
16. Love Is Colder Than Death (1970) — Director
17. Katzelmacher (1969) — Director
18. The Third Generation (1979) — Director
19. Effi Briest (1974) — Director
20. Despair (1978) — Director
21. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) — Director
22. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) — Director
23. Satan’s Brew (1976) — Director
24. Gods of the Plague (1970) — Director
25. The Little Chaos (1966) — Director
26. Fear of Fear (1975) — Director
27. Germany in Autumn (1978) — Director
28. I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) — Director
29. The City Tramp (1966) — Director
30. The American Soldier (1976) — Director
31. Whity (1971) — Director
32. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972) — Director
33. Rio das Mortes (1971) — Director
34. Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) — Director
35. Jail Bait (1973) — Director
36. The Stationmaster’s Wife (1977) — Director
37. The Niklashausen Journey (1970) — Director
38. Nora Helmer (1974) — Director
39. Like a Bird on a Wire (1975) — Director
40. Bremen Freedom (1972) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) — Eugen
2. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) — Peddler
3. Veronika Voss (1982) — Kinobesucher (uncredited)
4. Fox and His Friends (1975) — Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
5. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6. Lili Marleen (1981) — Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
7. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972) — Zucker
8. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) — Sascha
9. Love Is Colder Than Death (1970) — Franz
10. Room 666 (1985) — Self
11. Katzelmacher (1969) — Jorgos
12. Effi Briest (1974) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
13. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) — Narrator (voice, uncredited)
14. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) — Wittowski
15. Gods of the Plague (1970) — Pornokunde
16. The Little Chaos (1966) — Franz
17. Germany in Autumn (1978) — Self (uncredited)
18. The City Tramp (1966) — Man #1 on Toilet
19. A German Youth (2015) — Self (archive footage)
20. Kamikaze '89 (1982) — Police Lieutenant Jansen
21. The American Soldier (1976) — Franz Walsch (uncredited)
22. Whity (1971) — Saloon guest (uncredited)
23. Baal (1970) — Baal
24. The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971) — Bauer
25. Rio das Mortes (1971) — Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
26. The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968) — the pimp
27. I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992) — Self (archive footage)
28. Supergirl (1971) — Man in Front of Shop Window
29. Shadow of Angels (1976) — Raoul
30. Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002) — Self (archive footage)
31. The Niklashausen Journey (1970) — Schwarzer Mönch
32. Fassbinder (2015) — Self (archive footage)
33. Fassbinder's Women (2000) — Self (Archive footage)
34. Bourbon Street Blues (1979) — Writer
35. Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015) — Self (archive footage)
36. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 (2005) — Self
37. Bremen Freedom (1972) — Rumpf
38. My Name Is Not Ali (2011) — Self (archive footage)
39. Haytabo (1971) — Courier
40. Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' (1980) — Self