When Rainer Werner Fassbinder died on June 10, 1982, in Munich, he was just 37 years old. In breathtaking speed, he created 44 films over 13 years of tireless work, which stand like an aesthetic mountain range in the film world. Influenced by the intellectual sophistication of Bert Brecht and the laconic appropriation of the mundane by Andy Warhol, Fassbinder developed a powerful poetic language of his own. And since he spoke of the often sad variations of love, it became a universal language. In the precise and loving depiction of (West) German conditions after the end of the war and before the fall of the Wall, his films have additionally become a national monument. It is a rich compendium of cinematic imagination compressed into 13 creative years, in which the poet and storyteller Fassbinder found his fulfillment and ultimately his exhaustion.