Liselotte Eder

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Liselotte "Lilo" Eder (née Liselotte Pempeit ; divorced Liselotte Fassbinder ; born October 6, 1922 in Kowall / Schmiede , Danziger Höhe district ; † May 7, 1993 in Munich ) was a German translator and actress . She was the mother of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder , who cast her in many of his films in small roles. She also made a name for herself as a translator of the early works of Truman Capote .

Life

Eder was born as Liselotte Irmgard Pempeit near Danzig. During the Second World War she studied German in Munich, where she met Helmuth Fassbinder (1918–2010) , a doctor of medicine , in 1944 , whom she married the following year. Due to the turmoil of the war and because Fassbinder was stationed as an assistant doctor in Bad Wörishofen , the only son Rainer was born in Bad Wörishofen in 1945. The family moved to Munich shortly afterwards, where Helmut Fassbinder opened a practice. After the divorce from her husband (1951) Eder began to work as a translator of English and French fiction. In 1959 she married the journalist Wolff Eder .

In 1957, Eder translated for the first time a volume with stories by Truman Capote for the Limes publishing house in Wiesbaden . Her other translation work includes a volume of essays by the French writer Julien Gracq , two books by the Chinese-American cultural philosopher Lin Yutang, and a number of popular entertainment novels for the Munich-based Franz Schneider Verlag ( Schneider Books ), which specializes in children's and young adult literature . In 1969 she started working in the medical data processing research group of the Society for Radiation Research (GSF, now the Helmholtz Society) in Munich, where she became an active elected member of the works council in 1975 and was partly also a research assistant. After her retirement in 1984, she continued to work as a freelancer for the GSF. Your participation in the cinematic activities of your son, e.g. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for example, came to terms with the antiteater debt complex or later work as director of Tango-Film , between 1972 and 1979, exclusively alongside her official job at the GSF, mainly in her free time.

Eder had already played a small role in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's second short film Das Kleine Chaos (1966). Until 1982 Fassbinder used his mother (mostly under her maiden name Lilo Pempeit) in more than twenty other productions, mostly in short scenes as a 'neighbor', 'customer', 'secretary' or 'mother' (e.g. in Fontane's Fontane Effi Briest ) . Her best-known appearance, however, is likely to be the detailed and controversial conversation about terrorism and democracy that she had with her son in his semi-documentary contribution to the episode film Germany in Autumn (1978).

After the death of her son (1982) Eder founded the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation in 1986 . In 1988 his father, Helmuth Fassbinder, also contributed his shares to the foundation. In 1991 Liselotte Eder transferred the entire shareholding and the management of the foundation to Fassbinder's partner and long-time film editor Juliane Lorenz . She was appointed by Eder as sole heir in his will.

Translations (selection)

Works by Truman Capote (as Liselotte Fassbinder):

  • Tree of the night and other stories , Wiesbaden 1957
  • House on the Heights , Wiesbaden 1964
  • The great stories , Munich 1976
  • Children's stories , Munich 1976 (together with Elisabeth Schnack and Ingeborg Müller)

Other (as Liselotte Eder):

  • Lin Yutang: happiness of understanding. Wisdom and Art of Living of the Chinese , Stuttgart 1963 (together with Wolff Eder)
  • Julien Gracq: Discoveries. Essays on literature and criticism , Stuttgart 1965
  • Lin Yutang: Chinese painting, a school of the art of living , Stuttgart 1967
  • Jack Peal: Invasion of the Vega. Death rays from space , Munich 1970
  • Richard Deming: Twen police intervene. The secret mission , Munich 1970

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • André Müller : Conversation with Liselotte Eder. In: I risk insanity. Cologne 1997, pp. 31-49
The cabaret artist Cora Frost used Müller's interview, which had first appeared in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , as material for the song If I go to the cemetery today , which was made famous by Tim Fischer's interpretation .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liselotte Eder-Fassbinder - In memory of the 20th anniversary of death. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, May 7, 2013, accessed May 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Eder, Liselotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eder, Lilo (nickname); Pempeit, Liselotte (maiden name); Fassbinder, Liselotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator and actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Kowall / Schmiede , Danziger Höhe district
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1993
Place of death Munich