The
Actor, who collaborated with the director on films including Fear Eats the Soul and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, also featured in Herzog’s Woyzeck
Irm Hermann, one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s closest collaborators, has died in
Berlin aged 77 following what her agent called a “short, serious illness”.
The actor, who was a staple of German theatre, TV and radio, made her name for her work with the uncompromising and virtuosic director, who she first encountered while working at the German automobile association.