Addicted to work, for love, for life

Died 30 years ago, Rainer Werner Fassbinder - an event that runs through this year's game plans of the Munich theater. In memory of the director and producer in addition to the Residenz Theater and the intimate theater shows and the Rational theater adaptation of a Fassbinder film on the stage: Veronika Voss celebrated on 1 April premiere.

Here are the details of the production team:

"Exactly 30 years ago was SENSUCHT OF THE VERONIKA VOSS, the penultimate film by Fassbinder, the award of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. A few months later, the news of the death of the filmmaker himself, reaching the world. This penultimate film, he devoted Zwerenz Gerhard (* 1925), author and friend of Fassbinder. In his autobiography describes Zwerenz what he, the writer and politician, and Cooper, the actor and filmmaker, made her soulmate: The 'Man born innocent. The rest of life has been spent to acquire the innocence of his childhood '.

Veronika Voss, Ufa successful actress in Joseph Goebbels suffering, ten years after the war from severe depression. A broken marriage and a lack of role offers to make her life a living hell. She takes refuge in their
Movie Star memories and quenches their pain with drugs. Finally she goes into the hands of a psychiatrist: Dr. Marianne Katz. One evening, the sportswriter Robert Krohn occurs in Veronica's life, and suddenly she realizes that she still has a desire to not breastfeed for medical care. There is a longing addiction, which she shares with basically everyone involved: the longing for pure love, for recognition and truth. In an attempt to throw himself into a new adventure with Robert, Veronica must recognize that it has long since lost their independence. Robert has caused him to not only journalistic interest Veronika tried together with his girlfriend Veronica to find out the truth about Henrietta. Play the mysterious doctor, Dr. Katz and her partner thought Josefa more important than. The search for Veronica also leads to a strange old couple, the Treibels, and more recently on Veronica's past: her former husband Max calls at the end of the four dead Veronika Voss.

Fassbinder Fassbinder would not, would hide behind those criminal involvements not much larger structures of power, powerlessness and dependence within a social system. In his BRD Trilogy negotiated Fassbinder 12 years post-war German history. In THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN Embedded (1978) and Lola (1981) is THE
VERONIKA VOSS (1982), the centerpiece of his trilogy. All figures are fighting in a system of (self-) control and exert variable from positions of power and / or fainting.

Veronika Voss model for the former UFA actress Sybille Schmitz (1909-1955) was. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1944-1982) is eleven years old when the actress suffering from depression with an overdose of sleeping pills
Munich takes his own life. Years later he decides to make a film about the forgotten woman. "When I started making movies, I wanted to fill a role with Sybille Schmitz. You should play the mother of Petra von Kant. Since I learned that it is simply dead. And no one knew just dead definite about their fate. I have laboriously and secretly searched without success, even in court. The story has me totally hooked. "