Biografie

A year before his death, listed these as his ten favorite films: Die Verdammten (1969), Die Nackten und die Toten (1958), Lola Montez (1955), Die Straße der Erfolgreichen (1949), Die 120 Tage von Sodom (1975), Blondinen bevorzugt (1953), X-27 (1931), Die Nacht des Jägers (1955), Johnny Guitar - Gejagt, gehaßt, gefürchtet (1954), Kalina Krassnaja (1974).

He made 41 movies in 13 years

Made 8 movies in just one year - 1970.

His death is often considered to mark the end of New German Cinema.

A school in Munich is named after him. Ironically, he left school without graduation at the age of 16 (18 July 2006).

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

I let the audience feel and think.

I'm against caricatures, I'm against parodies;if you say that this scene has the effect of a parody, then I have to take your word for it, but then I'm ashamed of myself and I apologize.