Rainer Werner Fassbinder was undoubtedly one of the greatest German directors of the post-war period. During his fifteen-year career, Fassbinder directed and produced, among his other cinematographic works, 40 feature films. Fassbinder was born in a small Bavarian town, Bad Wörishofen, on May 31, 1945 and died presumably of a drug overdose at the age of 37 on June 10, 1982. He was Germany's most successful director, actor and screenwriter. view of the new German cinema. It continues the tradition of great German films and deals with Germany's Nazi past, the average person's involvement in the dictatorship, and the tendency to suppress the memory of those years after World War II. Political reality and the difficult times of the 1920s contributed to this development. the rise of the right-wing nationalist party. Adolf Hitler was an avid movie fan, and by adopting new technologies for his party, such as flying a plane to deliver speeches in multiple cities in one day, he realized the potential that existed for Nazi propaganda. His future Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, a short man with a club foot, would eventually control the film industry. Goebbels removed all Jewish involvement in the film industry, leading to many talented people leaving Germany (while they could still get by). Likewise, he ousted everyone who did not conform to official party thinking, so many more people, like Fritz Lang, the director of Metropolis, left. At the start of the Nazi era, more propaganda films, such as Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, during which she glorified Hitler and the masses which paid homage to her, were produced (“Leni Riefenstahl”). Nazi officials noticed that in middle of paper......xy.clemson.edu/EBchecked/topic/202295/Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder>.Rother, Rainer "Riefenstahl, Leni." Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. Reference Credo. Internet. February 16, 2014. Smith, Duncan “Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1945-1982.” Encyclopedia of German Literature. London: Routledge, 2000. Reference Credo. Internet. February 14, 2014.The wedding of Maria Braun. [Die Ehe der Maria Braun]. Real. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Perf. Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny. Trio Films, 1979. DVD. Thompson, Kristin and David Bordwell. History of cinema, an introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2010. 8. Print. Veronika Voss. [Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss]. Real. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Perf. Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess. Film Laura/Film Tango, 1982. DVD.