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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
German filmmaker (1945–1982)
"Fassbinder" redirects here. Not to be confused with Fassbender.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German:[ˈʁaɪnɐˈvɛʁnɐˈfasbɪndɐ]ⓘ; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder,[1] was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement. Versatile and prolific, his over 40 films span a variety of genres, most frequently blending elements of Hollywood melodrama with social criticism and avant-garde techniques.[2] His films, according to him, explored "the exploitability of feelings".[3][4] His work was deeply rooted in post-war German culture: the aftermath of Nazism, the German economic miracle, and the terror of the Red Army Faction. He worked with a company of actors and technicians who frequently appeared in his projects.[3]
Fassbinder began leading the acting troupe Anti-Theater in 1967, with whom he staged some of his earliest productions.[3 Born on May 31, 1945 in Bad Wörishofen (Allgaeu), Rainer Werner Fassbinder grew up in Munich. He was the only child of the doctor Helmut Fassbinder and his wife, the translator Liselotte Fassbinder, née Pempeit. After his parents got divorced in 1951, he went to live with his mother and attended schools in Augsburg and Munich. He left school in 1961 before any final examinations. From 1961 until 1963, he lived in Cologne, and from 1963 until 1966, he took acting classes in Munich. In 1966 and 1967, he failed to get accepted at the newly-founded German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. In 1966/67, he made his debut as a director, writer and actor with the short films "This Night", "Der Stadtstreicher" ("The City Tramp"), and "Das kleine Chaos" ("The Little Chaos"). In 1967, Fassbinder joined the Munich Action-Theater, at first as an actor and later as a director and writer. In 1968, he directed his first stage play "Katzelmacher". In the same year, he co-founded the "antitheater" alongside Hanna Schygulla, Peer Raben and Kurt Raab. Fassbinder's first feat Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Jail Bait, which had its U.S. Premiere as part of our Spring 1976 Fassbinder Retrospective, is a relatively neglected major work from the height of the director's career, made between The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. The text is based on a play by a leading German dramatist, Franz Xaver Kroetz, but the end result is pure Fassbinder - so much so that the original author publicly denounced the film's attitude toward his characters as “obscene.” The story is about a 19-year-old leftover from the James Dean era who “seduces” an underage 14-year-old girl. The hopelessly infatuated boyfriend finds himself shoved into a life of crime - first a jail stretch for corrupting a minor, then a gruesome plan to murder the girl's wildly disapproving father. As the teenage charmer, actress Eva Mattes is not quite what one would expect - bovine, placidly playing with dolls, guns and penises; built more along the lines of Mae West than Patty McCormack. Many European critics interpreted Jail Bait as a social protest film on the generat
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