Article: Invaded by memories of Germany's past: an interview with Margarethe von Trotta.(Interview)

The most widely recognized German woman director of the past quarter-century, Margarethe von Trotta, began her career as a performer, appearing in several of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's early films, among other works. Her first writing credit came on Volker Schlondorff's The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971), in which she also acted, and she married the director that same year. In 1975 she cowrote and codirected with Schlondorff a controversial adaptation of Heinrich Boll's novel concerning political repression in the Federal Republic, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Striking out on her own as writer-director with The Second Awakening of Christa Klages ...

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