Born in Georgenthal, Thuringia, in 1945 and died in Kassel in 2010, Werner Schroeter was a director of film, theatre and opera who made baroque, highly emotional films of opera arias, melodrama and a love of diva figures, particularly Maria Callas. His early work in 16mm with Magdalena Montezuma, such as Eika Katappa and The Death of Maria Malibran (1972), is experimental and theatrical. Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) about a Sicilian immigrant in Germany won the Golden Bear at Berlin. Fassbinder was a friend and admirer. He later made Malina (1991), with Isabelle Huppert.
Filmography
- Eika Katappa (1969)
- The Death of Maria Malibran (1972)
- Willow Springs (1973)
- The Kingdom of Naples (1978)
- Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
- Day of the Idiots (1981)
- Malina (1991)
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