"It's a great day." With these words, Head of the Department of Culture Ina Hartwig opened the presentation of the new Fassbinder Center Frankfurt, which will open in spring 2019 at Eschersheimer Landstraße 121 - and thus very close to the Westend University Campus. "I am very happy that we will be exploring Fassbinder and his work in Frankfurt in the future." For Juliane Maria Lorenz-Wehling, Fassbinder's film editor and heiress, Frankfurt's Deutsches Filmmuseum makes it the perfect location for the center. For her, giving the estate of the great filmmaker here is the only right decision, not least because of the connection that existed between Fassbinder and Frankfurt through his work. "I'm delighted that everything will be cherished in the new center," she said, confessing that handing over the estate is also a kind of liberation for her.
About which Ellen Harrington, director of the German Film Institute and Film Museum is very grateful. For the estate includes countless documents, notes, photographs, posters and other valuable mementos of one of the most important German film directors of the postwar period. With the extensive oeuvre he created in only 37 years of life, Rainer Werner Fassbinder brought international renown to the New German Cinema, as did other young directors in the 1970s. That is why the Fassbinder Center is also of international significance for Frankfurt as a location.
In the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Center, however, it will not only be possible to explore the estate of the man who gave his name to the film. In the future, the German Film Institute & Filmmuseum will bundle large parts of its collection in one place and make them accessible to researchers, students and all those interested in film. Where at the moment there are still empty offices, in a few months the entire German post-war cinema will be explorable. Unique documents from the likes of Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell, Arthur Brauner and Maximilian Schell, as well as archives from various production companies and countless photos of national and international productions will make this place a special attraction.
Hesse has always been an important location for German film heritage, a fact that will be reinforced by the opening of the Fassbinder Center. For more info, visit: <link http: www.deutsches-filminstitut.de _blank>Www.deutsches-filminstitut.de
