Rosa von Praunheim

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.

Early life

Von Praunheim was born in Riga, Latvia Central Prison during the German occupation of Latvia in World War II. His biological mother died in 1946 at the psychiatric hospital in Berlin Wittenauer Heilstätten. After his birth, he was given up for adoption. He only knew these facts when his adoptive mother, Gertrud Mischwitzky, told him in 2000. He discovered the fate of his biological mother in 2006 after a lengthy investigation. He documented his quest in the film Two Mothers (2007).

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Calendar: July 12-18

Washington Blade 11 Jul 2019

Baltimore rapper plays the 9.30 Club’s monthly gay party ‘BENT’ Saturday night. (Photo courtesy 9.30) Friday, July 12. meets tonight at Luther Place Memorial Church (1226 Vermont Ave., N.W.) at 7.30 p.m ... For more information, visit gammaindc.org ... Tonight they’ll be showing part one of “The AIDS Trilogy,” “Silence=Death” directed by Rosa von Praunheim....

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Washington Jewish Film Festival rebrands; Md. Film Festival returns

Washington Blade 04 May 2019

A 1919 queer-themed silent film ‘Different From the Others’ will be screened at JxJ, a reboot of the Washington Jewish Film Festival ... May 8-26 ... “The Einstein of Sex” by acclaimed director Rosa von Praunheim chronicles the efforts of German Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld to challenge anti-homosexual laws in the decade leading up to World War II....

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Albrecht Becker Survived WWII to Become a Pioneering Photographer

Vice 21 Feb 2019

This article originally appeared on VICE Germany. Albrecht Becker lived to tell the tale ... Yet more than 60 years later, in 1996, he sat down to film Rosa von Praunheim's short documentary Liebe und Leid (Love and Suffering), smiling, to share what life was like as a gay man under Nazi rule ... Becker would often paint over his photographs ... WATCH ... ....

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A New David Wojnarowicz Exhibition on His Old Cruising Grounds

The New Republic 03 Aug 2018

In the new David Wojnarowicz show at the Whitney, there’s a room with nothing in it. A 1992 recording of the artist reading from his memoir Close to the Knives plays to the white walls ... The poster for the 1989 Rosa von Praunheim film Silence = Death, which shows him with his lips sewn shut, comes directly from his 1986-7 art film Fire In My Belly ... ....

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Thriving and Surviving Onscreen: How the ‘New York Woman’ Does It

Village Voice 02 Jul 2018

Then there’s a movie literally titled Survival in New York (1989), the rarely-screened Rosa von Praunheim documentary about transgender women in the city ... CurtisJill ClayburghJohn CassavetesKathryn BigelowPaul MazurskyRoman PolanskiRosa von PraunheimSusan SeidelmanZoë Tamerlis....

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This week in history: Sex scientist Magnus Hirschfeld

People's World 14 May 2018

Magnus Hirschfeld was born 150 years ago, on May 14, 1868. His pioneering work mustn’t be forgotten. Over 100 years ago, the gay German sexologist Dr ... ... His extraordinary endeavors are thankfully now well documented in the film, The Einstein of Sex (Rosa von Praunheim, 1999), and in the biography, Magnus Hirschfeld (Charlotte Wolff, 1986) ... ....

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From Philadelphia to 120 BPM: the changing face of Aids in film

The Observer 06 Apr 2018

Precious (2009) is a notable exception ... anger ... Read more ... Rosa von Praunheim took a caustic look at the Aids crisis in A Virus Knows No Morals (1985), a provocative satire that embraced camp to criticise the misinformation circulating around HIV and Aids. Humour is a weapon, and Praunheim wields it without pity ... ....

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Magnus Hirschfeld Advanced LGBT+ Rights In The 1800s - His Pioneering Work Mustn't Be Forgotten

Huffington Post 21 Feb 2018

That took immense courage - and determination. He was battling against the ignorance and prejudice of centuries ... He truly was a man ahead of his time ... His extraordinary endeavours are thankfully now well documented in the film, The Einstein of Sex (Rosa von Praunheim, 1999), and in the biography, Magnus Hirschfeld (Charlotte Wolff, 1986) ... ....

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A fantastic leap – trans cinema's breakthrough moment

The Guardian 02 Feb 2018

Read more ... Historically, there has been a divide ... Twitter ... Twitter ... The first was German film-maker Rosa von Praunheim, whose films are more intelligent and interesting than (heterosexual or cisgender) critics realised ... Like Warhol, Von Praunheim brought misfits – specifically, queer Americans in West Berlin – together, and let them improvise dialogue ... ....

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Germany's most famous gay rights activist: Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim at 75

Deutsche Welle 24 Nov 2017

Shrill, campy and brutally honest. Director Rosa von Praunheim is a pioneer and icon of gay rights in Germany. The tireless filmmaker's latest movie is released as he celebrates his 75th birthday ... ....

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Bathroom Pickups and Domestic Life Are Explored in the Rarely Revived “Taxi to the Toilet”

Village Voice 05 Sep 2017

... Rosa von Praunheim, who insisted, in his 1979 documentary Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts, on “making the private public.” This decree is most astonishingly on display when Frank, his feet in stirrups, undergoes a proctoscopy, a procedure shown in extreme close-up....