Juliane Lorenz
Juliane Lorenz ( born August 2, 1957 in Mannheim ) is a German film editor, director, producer and author. She is the heiress of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) and his mother, Liselotte Eder (1922-1993) and President and CEO of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.
Life
Juliane Lorenz was born under the name Juliane Maria Ketterer, the daughter of Wilhelm Waizmann laboratory technicians and the seamstress ( and later Synchroncutterin ) Frieda Ketterer and grew first in Hinterzarten in the Black Forest and then into Stuttgart, Wiesbaden and Munich. Through the marriage of the mother with the cultural film director Dieter Lorenz she got in 1961 transferred the name Lorenz. After the divorce, the mother in 1970, she lived in Bad Wörishofen and went in the nearby Kaufbeuren in the St. Mary's High School. After a short interruption of school attendance post-high school, she completed an internship in Munich in a film lab and then decided to continue attending the school. In 1974 she began studying at the School of Political Science Munich and learned in parallel to study with Margot von Schlieffen the technical foundations of film editing.
In 1975, she cut her first movies for Ernst Batta, 1976, she was at the intersection and involved the setting of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Chinese Roulette. From the meeting with Cooper, a working and living community that lasted until his death in 1982 and a total of 14 films included developed. Occasionally it occurs as an actress in small roles in his films. According to Lorenz accomplished both in 1978 in Fort Lauderdale ( Florida) nichtbeglaubigte a marriage ceremony. This meant that Fassbinder's legacy fell after his death in 1982 to his parents. Fassbinder's mother, Liselotte Eder transferred its inheritance in 1986, founded by her Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, charitable estate mbH ( RWFF ); Cooper's father, Helmut Fassbinder had to pay in 1988, which also cause his inheritance to the RWFF passed. 1991 was Liselotte Eder the entire share of the RWFF to Juliane Lorenz, which forwards them as sole shareholder and managing director since 1992. When in 1993 Liselotte Eder died, was Juliane Lorenz her sole heir and thus the legal successor of her and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
It has 1992, the first German Fassbinder full retrospective initiated in Germany, where in 1997 the first complete retrospective in the United States at the Museum of Modern Art in New York followed, and in 2005, on his 60th birthday, a first complete retrospective and exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Under their overall management were restored by the 43 Fassbinder films to date, over 30 and transferred to the global re- distribution of modern media, giving her a leading role in the initiation and execution of restoration, and the RWFF the recognition of international art and film institutions has introduced. 2007, Fassbinder's death 25 years, a highlight was the world premiere of Fassbinder's masterpiece Berlin Alexanderplatz, at the International Film Festival in Berlin, whose exemplary restoration in the professional world received worldwide recognition. Only a group of former Cooper employees who in recent years but no longer worked with Fassbinder and were not present at the genesis of the film, had tried three months after the German premiere to highlight the work of Juliane Lorenz and RWFF in question. Main complaint was that she had brightened the film in digital scanning. After a long and intense debate in the German press, and especially after an opinion of the artistic director of the restoration, the original cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger and Fassbinder's former cameraman Michael Ballhaus, the charges were refuted. There was also a careful research of the renowned author Tilman Jens for a short film on the television program Culture time made it clear that the allegations against Lawrence were wrong. The premiered at the 60th Berlinale 2010 science fiction film World on a Wire - restored under the artistic direction of the original cameraman Michael Ballhaus - was a re- highlight the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation under their direction and made it clear how important it is to obtain cinematic heritage.
Lorenz worked even after Fassbinder's death continues as an editor ( and Others with Werner Schroeter, Teresa Villaverde, Romuald Karmakar, Oskar Roehler ), and since 1983 also as writer and director of documentary films. In addition, she is a publicist, including The Normal Chaos (1995), In the Land of the apple tree (2002) and written film- specific essays and articles. She has received prizes for the very early designated by it as a film installation work as an editor and taught 1983-1991 also at film schools. She is in demand as a specialist of Fassbinder work worldwide and is loaded at openings of RWF retrospectives and seminars by renowned institutions and universities. She is a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy and a board member of Friends of the German Film Institute (DIF ) in Frankfurt.
Lorenz, the private and professional life mainly lived in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005, today has its center of life in Berlin, where also the seat of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.