‘At that time in Germany the profession was not really recognised and people thought that a woman editor just sits next to the director while he says, ‘Cut!’ I even had a lawsuit because the Finance Department of Germany said I had to pay another tax because I was a dependent worker.’
Juliane Lorenz is a German editor, whose career started at age 19 as Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s editor. She went on to edit over 40 films, predominantly for Fassbinder and Werner Schroeter. She has also directed her own films and has written and edited many books on Fassbinder. She currently heads The Fassbinder Foundation, which she co-founded after his death.