Fine Cuts: Interviews on the Practice of European Film Editing, 2nd Edition

11Juliane Lorenz

I talked to Juliane in the café of the Literatur Haus in Berlin. She was the editor for and close collaborator with Rainer Werner Fassbinder during his highly productive last phase. Since his death she has combined running The Fassbinder Foundation with editing for a number of eminent directors including Werner Schroeter.

RC: So, to begin at the beginning—where you were born, what your parents did.

JL: I was not born into a really “gutbürgerliche family situation” (solid middle-class). But it would have been, if …! My father Wilhelm Waitzmann met my mother during his studies in Freiburg in Breisgau, a very interesting, although very Catholic university city in the south-west of Germany, in the so-called Higher Black Forest. ...