Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-05-31
Day of Death
1982-06-10 (37 years old)
Place of Birth
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Biography
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career that lasted 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.
Known For
Acting
(2024)
(2020)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Photographer "Eise"
as Self
(2015)
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
Fassbinder
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Self (archive footage)
(2011)
My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
as Self (archive footage)
(2008)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self (archive footage)
(2008)
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
Atlètic Club Banyoles
as self
(2002)
Fassbinder in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1992)
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as Self (archive footage)
(1987)
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
as Self
(1984)
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
(1982)
Veronika Voss
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
(1982)
The Wizard of Babylon
as Self
(1982)
Kamikaze 1989
as Police Lieutenant Jansen
(1982)
(1982)
Room 666
as Self
(1981)
(1981)
Polnischer Sommer
as Babiuch
(1981)
Lili Marleen
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
(1980)
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
as Self
(1980)
(1979)
Bourbon Street Blues
as Writer
(1979)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Peddler
(1978)
(1978)
Germany in Autumn
as Self (uncredited)
(1978)
Little Godard
as Second Director
(1977)
(1976)
Shadow of Angels
as Raoul
(1976)
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
as Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
(1976)
(1975)
Fox and His Friends
as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
(1975)
(1975)
(1974)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Eugen
(1974)
1 Berlin-Harlem
as Self
(1974)
Effi Briest
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1973)
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Wittowski
(1972)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Zucker
(1972)
Bremen Freedom
as Rumpf
(1971)
Beware of a Holy Whore
as Sascha
(1971)
The Ancestress
as Jaromir
(1971)
(1971)
Mathias Kneißl
as Flecklbauer
(1971)
Supergirl
as Man in Front of Shop Window
(1971)
(1971)
Whity
as Saloon guest (uncredited)
(1971)
Haytabo
as Bote des Professors
(1971)
Rio das Mortes
as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
(1970)
Gods of the Plague
as Pornokunde
(1970)
Love Is Colder Than Death
as Franz
(1970)
The American Soldier
as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
(1970)
Baal
as Baal
(1970)
The Niklashausen Journey
as Schwarzer Mönch
(1970)
End of the Commune?
as Self (uncredited)
(1969)
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
as Heini
(1969)
Katzelmacher
as Jorgos
(1969)
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
as Mechaniker
(1969)
Tonys Freunde
as Mallard
(1968)
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
as the pimp
(1968)
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
as Soldier
(1966)
The City Tramp
as Man #1 on Toilet
(1966)
The Little Chaos
as Franz
Crew
(2022)
Peter von Kant
Original Story
(2013)
Frogman Katzelmacher
Writer
(2012)
Garbage, the City and Death
Theatre Play
(2000)
(1982)
Veronika Voss
Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer
(1982)
Querelle
Editor, Screenplay, Director
(1981)
Lili Marleen
Director, Editor, Screenplay
(1981)
Lola
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Line Producer
(1981)
Theater in Trance
Director, Writer
(1979)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Director, Editor, Idea
(1979)
The Third Generation
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
(1978)
Germany in Autumn
Director, Screenplay
(1978)
Despair
Director, Editor
(1978)
In a Year with 13 Moons
Director, Art Direction, Writer, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
(1978)
Spiel der Verlierer
Producer, Editor
(1977)
Chinese Roulette
Director, Writer
(1977)
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Director, Writer, Editor
(1977)
Women in New York
Director
(1977)
Adolf and Marlene
Producer
(1976)
Shadow of Angels
Theatre Play, Screenplay
(1976)
Satan’s Brew
Director, Writer
(1976)
I Only Want You to Love Me
Director, Writer
(1975)
Fox and His Friends
Director, Writer, Producer
(1975)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Director, Writer
(1975)
Fear of Fear
Director, Writer
(1975)
Like a Bird on a Wire
Director, Writer
(1974)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Director, Producer, Author, Original Music Composer, Production Design
(1974)
Effi Briest
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(1974)
Martha
Director, Screenplay
(1974)
Nora Helmer
Director
(1974)
La Paloma
Writer
(1973)
Tenderness of the Wolves
Producer
(1973)
Jail Bait
Writer, Screenplay, Director
(1972)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Producer
(1972)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(1972)
Bremen Freedom
Director, Author
(1971)
Beware of a Holy Whore
Director, Writer, Editor
(1971)
Whity
Director, Screenplay, Editor
(1971)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Director, Screenplay
(1971)
Rio das Mortes
Director, Writer, Editor
(1970)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Director, Screenplay, Editor
(1970)
Gods of the Plague
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
(1970)
Love Is Colder Than Death
Director, Screenplay, Editor
(1970)
The American Soldier
Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
(1970)
The Niklashausen Journey
Director, Writer, Editor
(1970)
The Coffee House
Director, Writer
(1969)
Katzelmacher
Director, Editor, Screenplay, Production Design, Theatre Play
(1966)
Ein Platz für Günter
Assistant Director
(1966)
The City Tramp
Director, Writer, Editor
(1966)
The Little Chaos
Director, Writer
(1966)
This Night
Director, Writer, Cinematography