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German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)

Also known as: Fassbinder, Franz Walsch, Franz Walsh, R. W. Fassbinder, Raïner Berner Phasmpinter, Rainer Fassbinder

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Franz Xaver Kroetz1946–
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Writes critical Volksstück plays about inarticulate, exploited provincial characters, close to Katzelmacher in theme and form. (AI reason)
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Marieluise Fleißer1901–1974
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Her Bavarian small-town dramas of sexual and social oppression were a direct model for Fassbinder's early plays. (AI reason)
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Ödön von Horváth1901–1938
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His folk plays expose petty-bourgeois cruelty and clichéd speech, the same terrain as Fassbinder's melodramas. (AI reason)
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Martin Sperr1944–2002
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His Bavarian plays of xenophobia and village brutality share the anti-Heimat critique of Katzelmacher. (AI reason)
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Bertolt Brecht1898–1956
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His distancing devices and critique of capitalism and power inform Fassbinder's stylized theatre. (AI reason)
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Elfriede Jelinek1946–
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Offers provocative, language-driven drama about sexual power, violence and the repressed fascist past. (AI reason)
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Werner Schwab1958–1994
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Writes grotesque, scandalous plays of degradation and distorted speech among the lower middle class. (AI reason)
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Georg Büchner1862–1944
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Woyzeck's fragmentary portrait of an exploited, abused man anticipates Fassbinder's social victims. (AI reason)
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Thomas Bernhard1931–1989
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His obsessive, misanthropic monologues attack postwar German-speaking hypocrisy with dark theatricality. (AI reason)
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Alfred Döblin1878–1957
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Berlin Alexanderplatz, which Fassbinder adapted, renders urban outcasts, love and violence in montage style. (AI reason)
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