Rainer Werner Fassbinder May 31, 1945 June 10, 1982 was born into a cultured bourgeois family in the small Bavarian spa town Bad Wörishofen. Raised by his mother as an only child, the boy had only sporadic contact with his father, a doctor, after the divorce of his parents when he was five. Educated at a Rudolf Steiner elementary school and subsequently in Munich and Augsburg, the city of Bert Brecht, he left school before passing any final examinations. A cinema addict five times a week, often three films a day from a very early age, not least because his mother needed peace and quiet for her work as a translator, the cinema was the family life I never had at home.

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