Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing

15  Juliane Lorenz

I talked to Juliane in the café of the Literatur Haus in Berlin. She was the editor for 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’. 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 southwest of Germany, in the so-called Higher Black Forest. My mother, Frieda Ketterer, was an apprentice in ...