On May 31, “RWF,” who died in 1982 at the age of 37, would have turned 75. Many actors and actresses he collaborated with on dozens of films and they became the faces of his fantastical universe. 2020 already saw the deaths of two of Fassbinder's closest collaborators: Volker Spengler died in February at age 80. In "In a Year of 13 Moons," he starred as Erwin-turned-Elvira. "Satan's Brew", "Veronika Voss", "Chinese Roulette", "The Third Generation", "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" followed. In Volker Schlöndorff's literary adaptation "The Ogre" he later played Nazi military leader Hermann Göring. Irm Hermann died on 28 May 2020 at age 77. She appeared in Fassbinder's first short "The City Tramp" in 1966 and 20 more films, including "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" and "The Merchant of Four Seasons." She left Fassbinder in 1975, subsequently working with Werner Herzog on "Woyzeck", but returned to RWF for "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and "Lili Marleen." GOETHE FILMS recently showed her in Christoph Schlingensief's "The German Chainsaw Massacre."Actress Margit Carstensen (80) considers director Rainer Werner Fassbinder “a great poet and visionary with incredible charisma and insane power.” Continue reading "RWF & his actresses: Margit Carstensen" »
