Irm hermann fassbinder biography

Irmgard Hermann (4 October 1942 – 26 May 2020) was a German actress.
Irmgard “Irm” Hermann (Múnich, 4 de octubre de 1942-Berlín, 26 de mayo de 2020) fue una actriz alemana.
Irm Hermann was one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's early confidants.

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Irm Hermann

German actress (1942–2020)

Irmgard Hermann (4 October 1942 – 26 May 2020) was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without formal training, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder who cast her in many of his films. She was awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis for playing Irmgard Epp in Fassbinder's The Merchant of Four Seasons, and again for appearing as Else Gebel, a woman in prison with Sophie Scholl, in Percy Adlon's Fünf letzte Tage.

Life

Born in Munich, Hermann became a publishing clerk after finishing school and worked as a secretary for ADAC.^[1] She met Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1966, who convinced her to quit her job to work with him although she lacked formal training as an actress. The same year, Hermann made her debut in Fassbinder's short film The City Tramp (Der Stadtstreicher [de]),^[1] and then went on to play in 19 of Fassbinder's films, including Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bi

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In Memoriam: Irm Hermann (1942-2020)

Essay

Irm Hermann was one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s early confidants. She was 21 and a secretary for an automobile club in Munich when she met the 20-year-old director at a reading of a play for which he had won a prize. For her, it was love at first sight. A year later he convinced her to play a part in his very first short film, Stadstreicher (1965). “I can’t act. I’m not an actress,” she protested.

That Fassbinder’s oeuvre was so voluminous—11 plays, 2 radio plays and 45 films, including a five-part and a fourteen-part television series, in a period of 13 years, from 1969 to 1982, the year of his untimely death—is largely due to the stock company of actors he gathered around him. In order to tie all of them to his person and to avoid them working with other directors, the professionally possessive Fassbinder was forced to make films almost continuously. Or, as his biographer Robert Katz put it, he was “filling his life with followers in order to make movies, then making movies to fill his life wit

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Berlinale Mourns the Loss of Irm Hermann

The actress Irm Hermann died on May 26, 2020. Due to her decades of work with leading German directors such as Christoph Schlingensief, Hans W. Geissendörfer, Loriot, Ulrike Ottinger and above all Rainer Werner Fassbinder, she was one of the most striking faces of German film. In 2000, as part of the acting ensemble of Paradiso - Seven Days with Seven Women, she received the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution.

“In the Fassbinder family Irm Hermann occupied a special place, which was larger than her roles. And even though she will stay forever in my mind as the silent Marlene in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, it’s her role in the universe of Fassbinder that I’m thinking of today. Irm Hermann was more than an actress: she was a confidante, a muse and a partner in crime. Her performance in Joan of Arc of Mongolia by Ulrike Ottinger is a further evidence of her skills and versatility”, says Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director of the Berlinale.

For many years, Hermann has worked at maj