See Also: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner(encyclopedia)
Rainer (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Rainer, Luise(encyclopedia)
Rilke, Rainer Maria(encyclopedia)
Werner, F(medicine)
Arber, Werner(encyclopedia)
Bischof, Werner(encyclopedia)
Forssmann, Werner(encyclopedia)
Hagedorn, Werner(medicine)
Herzog, Werner(encyclopedia)

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (sh)




born May 31, 1946, Bad W?rishofen, W.Ger.
died June 10, 1982, Munich

German film director.

He was involved in the avant-garde theatre movement in Munich and helped form the Antitheatre (1967). His first full-length film (1969) was followed by 40 others, produced in a short period, including The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Effi Briest (1974), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), the 15-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Lola (1981), and Veronika Voss (1982). Regarded as a leader of the German New Wave, he helped revitalize German cinema in the 1970s and '80s. His socially and politically conscious films often explore themes of oppression and despair.