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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (born 1946 May 31) was a controversial German director/playwright, attracted attention with politically committed and nonillusory work. His central themes were misuse of power and consequences of oppression.
Influenced by Jean-Luc Godard. Among his over 40 full-length films are The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981), Veronika Voss (1982), and the 14-part tv film Berlin Alexanderplaz (1980).
During his most prolific period (1969 — 1976) Fassbinder made theatre productions in Munich, Bremen, Bochum, Nuremberg, Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfurt, did four radio plays, and took roles in other directorʼs films, including the title role in Volker Schlöndorffʼs Brecht adaptation Baal (1970).
Fast living and fast working, he died of drug overdose in Munich, age 36, on June 10, 1982. His death symbolically marks the end of the most experimental period of the German cinema since the 1920s.
