Ulli Lommel is a renowned filmmaker, widely recognized for his prolific collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a creative partnership that endured for a decade and yielded over twenty films, solidifying his position as one of the most consistently innovative filmmakers to emerge from the New German Cinema movement.
Born into a family of performers, Lommel began his career in show business as a child. His early life was marked by a deep connection to the world of entertainment, with his father, Ludwig Manfred Lommel, being a notable German comic performer.
Lommel's second feature film as a director, Tenderness of the Wolves (1973),brought him to New York, where he began working with the enigmatic Andy Warhol at The Factory. This period of collaboration spawned several feature films, including Cocaine Cowboys (1979) and Blank Generation (1980),both of which were directed by Lommel and featured Warhol in an acting role.
In the summer of 2013, Lommel embarked on a nine-month journey to Brazil, where he wrote a book and also created a film about Campo Bahia, the official camp for the German National Soccer Team. Furthermore, his autobiography, titled Tenderness of the Wolves, is scheduled for release in late 2015.
