Ian Penman.
IAN PENMAN
FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS (2023)
Winner of the 2023 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Winner of the Ondaatje 2024 Ondaatje Prize.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (born 1945) was a pioneering and prolific film director who was a leading figure in the New German Cinema movement. He was massively prolific, producing more than 40 films before his death from a drug overdose in 1982. He was only 37 years old at the time of his death. Many of Fassbinder’s films (in which he himself frequently acted) were highly controversial. They explored prejudices about sex, race, sexual orientation, politics, and class. His work covered a turbulent period of West Germany’s history, with the post Second World War economic miracle, the aftermath of Nazism, and the terror of the Red Army.
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THE AUTHOR
Ian Penman (born 1959) is a British writer, critic and music journalist. He worked for many years at the New Musical Express. He has also contributed to Sight & Sound and the Guardian. Much of his writing was on the post-punk London music scene of the late 1970s.
