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Rosa von Praunheim is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography Allemand born on 25 november 1942 at Riga (Lettonie)

Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim
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Birth name Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky
Nationality German
Birth 25 november 1942 (81 years) at Riga (Lettonie)

Rosa von Praunheim (born 25 November 1942), is a German film director, author, painter and gay rights activist.

A prolific director, he has made over seventy feature films. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa Von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps. A pioneer of Queer Cinema, von Praunheim has been an activist in the gay rights movement. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex, but has been a controversial figure even within the gay community. His films center on gay related themes and strong female characters. His works are characterized by excess and employ a campy style. His films have featured such personalities as Jayne County, Vaginal Davis, Divine, and Jeff Stryker.

Biography

Militant LGBT, il choisit son pseudonyme en référence au triangle rose attribué aux homosexuels par les nazis. Avec entre autres le réalisateur Werner Schroeter, il accompagne le mouvement de libération gay en Allemagne par ses livres et ses courts-métrages (Ce n'est pas l'homosexuel qui est pervers, mais la situation dans laquelle il vit, 1970).

Il réalise de nombreux documentaires sur la culture underground, le mouvement gay, le SIDA et la transidentité. Il a reçu le prix du jury au Teddy Award pour Die Aids Trilogie en 1990.

Il est élu membre de l'Académie des arts de Berlin en 2009. Son compagnon est Oliver Sechting.

Usually with

Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter
(3 films)
Magdalena Montezuma
Magdalena Montezuma
(3 films)
Robert van Ackeren
Robert van Ackeren
(2 films)
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
(1 films)
Holly Woodlawn
Holly Woodlawn
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rosa von Praunheim (24 films)

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Actor

I Feel Like Disco
I Feel Like Disco (2013)
, 1h38
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film
Actors Christina Große, Rosa von Praunheim
Roles Rosa von Praunheim
Rating69% 3.465833.465833.465833.465833.46583
Florian est un jeune adolescent qui préfère écouter de la musique disco avec sa mère plutôt que de passer du temps avec son père, dont il n'est pas très proche. Cet équilibre familial est rompu lorsque la mère de Florian, à la suite d'un AVC, plonge dans le coma. Alors que père et fils vont devoir surmonter ensemble cette épreuve, Florian se découvre une attirance pour Radu, un jeune garçon rencontré à la piscine.
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Here’s Looking at You, Boy (2007)

Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors John Waters, Wieland Speck, Rosa von Praunheim, Ingrid Caven, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Frears
Roles Self
Rating65% 3.274263.274263.274263.274263.27426
Plus de 30 ans d'homosexualité au cinéma. André Schäfer a parcouru l'Europe, l'Asie et les Amériques pour aller à la rencontre des réalisateurs et d'acteurs qui ont fait sortir du placard l'homosexualité. Y sont notamment interviewés Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho), Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), le réalisateur allemand de Coming Out (1989), les réalisateurs français Jacques Martineau et Olivier Ducastel (Crustacés et Coquillages) et Patrice Chéreau, les acteurs Jean-Marc Barr, Ingrid Caven ou Tilda Swinton, la réalisatrice allemande Angelina Maccarone (Fremde Haut/Unveiled) ou le réalisateur indien Onir (My Brother… Nikhil).
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005)
, 1h30
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rosa von Praunheim
Roles Self
Rating63% 3.185113.185113.185113.185113.18511
During a gay march in Berlin, some of the men in the crowd are asked their opinion about gay men who have hard-core right wing views, are skinheads or neo-Nazis. All of those questioned express their disapproval. One of them comments the absurdity of the situation: if the gay right-wing and neo-Nazis would have lived in the era they admire, they would have been exterminated.
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity (1995)
, 1h29
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rosa von Praunheim
Rating62% 3.137933.137933.137933.137933.13793
Rosa von Praunheim, a controversial German film director, Introduces the premiere of his new film before a live audience. A moviegoer leaps to his feet and shoots him. Gesine Ganzman-Seipel, a disdainful TV reporter, is assigned to do a mockumentary series on the victim's debauched existence and his career as a dilettante artist. The mystery surrounding von Praunheim's death is fueled by the disappearance of the corpse.
Silence = Death
Silence = Death (1990)
, 1h
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about cities, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Paul L. Smith, Rosa von Praunheim
Roles Self
Rating71% 3.5629353.5629353.5629353.5629353.562935
This film explores the reactions and response of New York City's artistic community to the ravages of the AIDS epidemic and other issues of homosexuality. Activist interview include representatives from the many arts organizations that have alerted the public to the crisis through performance art, music, theater and literature. Even with the gentler voices, the film’s undercurrent is an angry demand for action and recognition.
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Life Is Like a Cucumber (1990)
, 1h27
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rosa von Praunheim
Rating60% 3.044253.044253.044253.044253.04425
Lotti Huber, in her late seventies at the time of filming, is a short, chubby flamboyant old lady of remarkable vivacity. Appearing wearing large hoop earrings and dramatic makeup, she recounts vividly important events and successes of her life. At the beginning of the film, she demands from Praunheim to make a documentary about her.
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Dolly, Lotte and Maria (1987)
, 1h
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dolly Haas, Rosa von Praunheim
Roles Interviewer

The first of the three women portrayed in this documentary is the innovative dancer/mime/choreographer Lotte Goslar (1907-1997), who worked with Mary Wigman in pioneering modern dance, and choreographed productions by Bertolt Brecht. She developed her own style of expressive dance. In 1933 she left Germany and toured in Europe. Disgusted with Germany's Nazism she exiled herself in the United States. In one of her most famous solos, Grandma Always Danced, she was seen, first, as a baby, then as a bride, a mother and as an old woman. Goslar became a popular teacher of mime and body movement for actors. In the late 1940s, she taught in Los Angeles, where one of her pupils was Marilyn Monroe.

Director

Tough Love
Tough Love (2015)
, 1h29
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Hanno Koffler, Luise Heyer
Rating68% 3.4235953.4235953.4235953.4235953.423595
As a little boy Andy is severely mistreated by his father until the man leaves the small family for good. Left alone with her son, the mother forces Andy into incestuous acts. At the age of eight, Andy feels drawn to Japanese martial arts and begins to train on a daily basis. Unlike his familial situation, his dojo provides the security of a reliable hierarchy where he can thrive. His recklessness and his achievements as a tournament fighter assure him the attention of the local underworld. Lacking alternatives he accepts an opportunity to work as a racketeer. More than one pretty young girl is infatuated with his rugged charm. He takes advantage of their feelings by running a prosperous side business as a pimp until a girl named Hannah says something that reminds him of his abusive mother. Overwhelmed by anger he beats her badly and finds himself behind bars. Marion, one of his lovers, remains faithful. With her he opens up to a woman for the first time and that enables him to tell a therapist the secrets of his troubled childhood. Following his release he becomes Marion's faithful companion.