Born in Bavaria in 1945 and died in Munich in 1982 at the age of thirty-seven, Fassbinder made more than forty films in about fifteen years. His melodramas of power and exploitation in love and society were central to New German Cinema.
Filmography
- Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
- Katzelmacher (1969)
- The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
- Effi Briest (1974)
- Fox and His Friends (1975)
- Fear of Fear (1975)
- Chinese Roulette (1976)
- Despair (1978)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
- Veronika Voss (1982)
- Querelle (1982)