When the ARD 1980-1981 consequences of the fourteen Döblin-Verfilmung On Fassbinder, reacted (entertainment) press and public with Häme and open outrage. The industry threw Fassbinder technical inadequacy, which Fernsehnation chastised him from week to week declining ratings. There was simply overwhelmed by this dark, disturbing "lousy job", the well 15 hours by German living room glimmered. Alfred Döblin's novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz" of 1929, the Kleinkriminellen- pimps and the Weimar Republic plays, was the literary event of fourteen key Fassbinder. Was it 20 years later at the request of the WDR from this classic Expressionism made, it was less a film in the traditional sense-the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema also hardly to be expected - as a vivisection of their own and the German History in precarious times identity crises. The artistic qualities of the series could actually was not adequately appreciated. For commercial television, the film was too dark, and the few in the world circulating copies faded fast. On the occasion of the 25th Death tags by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) presents the Foundation named after him now with great technical effort restored version of Berlin Alexanderplatz. The premiere at the Berlinale in 2007 became the event and the final document for Fassbinder's ingenuity and visual power. The book on the restored film version documented Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz in every detail: 570 pages colored film stills, the complete screenplay, Fassbinder's own thoughts on Döblin's novel and analyzed lyrics by Susan Sontag and Klaus Biesenbach.