High Times Greats: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Interviewed by Dieter Schidor (1983)

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High Times: Fassbinder seemed to have found his financial touch in the last four years. In honor of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s birthday on May 31, we’re republishing Wilmington’s interview with Fassbinder collaborator Dieter Schidor below. And that became impossible, you know—because Fassbinder didn’t take care of the son. The Sex, Drugs, Sadism, and Weltschmerz of Rainer Werner Fassbinder High Times: How did you first meet Fassbinder? Schidor: I don’t know, it was a combination of reasons.

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From the August, 1983 issue of High Times comes Mike Wilmington’s tribute to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), the darling of the film festivals; a director of genius who died of a barbiturate/cocaine overdose at age 36. In honor of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s birthday on May 31, we’re republishing Wilmington’s interview with Fassbinder collaborator Dieter Schidor below.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was the central German film director of the whole post-Hitler era. He was the greatest in terms of productivity (43 films in barely over a decade), range and impact on...

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