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Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 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.
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27 November 2014
A New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
18 September 1979
A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.
25 October 2004
Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
16 February 2007
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
31 October 2009
A German documentary studying concepts of hell developed over time in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, often overlapping -but not in Catholicism- with purgatory.
23 April 2015
Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...
10 January 1984
Turned while visiting New York, down-on-her-luck Neue Deutsche Welle vampire Sylvana struggles to get by in 1980s West Berlin when she realizes none of her friends want to be bitten.
30 September 2021
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic.
16 February 2005
The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis.
06 December 2024
To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two documentary filmmakers André Schäfer and Eric Friedler have created a quiet, thoughtful and entertaining portrait of this often anarchic humorist.
19 February 1988
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin.
01 September 1971
It is love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim’s outrageous genre, social satire.
20 October 2012
Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday.
03 November 1972
Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".
29 October 2021
Rosa von Praunheim was inspired to make this film by his own radio play “Die Nachtigall” (The Nightingale) from 1986, when he improvised together with street singer Friedrich Steinhauer, who called himself “die Nachtigall vom Ramersdorf” (The Nightingale of Ramersdorf), and Luzi Kryn, who became famous for her role in Praunheim’s film DIE BETTWURST.
16 January 1986
Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his mind on profits.
30 June 2022
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972.
01 January 1986
"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhauser Allee, which seems to be depopulated.
07 December 2011
Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active prostitutes, the realities of male prostitutes in Berlin are treated.
04 May 1979
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim.
08 October 1969
Feminist short film set in West Berlin. A militant group of homosexuals who campaign for women's liberation.
28 August 2015
Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye.
25 October 1976
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who is interviewed in Spanish).
01 January 1977
Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US underground scene with low-budget films.
04 May 1979
Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.
20 September 2005
A retelling of the events that led to the death of Bernd Juergen Brandes. Brandes responded to Armin Meiwes' Internet ad in 2001, where Meiwes indicated that he was looking for a man willing to be killed and eaten.
03 February 2025
A sensual hommage to Germany's most productive queer filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim.
08 June 2019
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete.
17 July 2021
How gay, how lesbian, how trans is German cinema? A 3sat documentary looks back at 100 years of queer film history.
29 November 2007
Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught for six years.
04 May 1990
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic.
10 November 2000
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
16 March 2000
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century.
05 December 1976
A film portrait that shows the ups and downs in the life and career of pop star Evelyn Künneke. Künneke mostly acts herself in front of the camera, but also gets to talk to friends and companions like the travesty artist Cristina from Amsterdam.
01 January 1976
Portrait on Marianne Rosenberg, underground icon Tabea Blumenschein dancing in the background.
24 October 1975
In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl.
28 October 2009
You say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cineastic probation – at least until you watch Bernd Sobolla’s documentary.
01 January 1969
Samuel Beckett walks in Berlin in 1969.
25 November 2022
Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked the middle-class to homophobic majority society.
31 May 1972
A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics and misfits as he travels, before reaching some sort of peace in Hawaii.
01 October 1968
Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.
25 October 2024
A portrait of Rosa von Praunheim's neighbor, who worked for decades as a professional dominatrix in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district.
28 May 1991
Rosa von Praunheim interviews gay actor Kurt von Ruffin, Berlin-based promoter Harry Toste and activist Andreas Meyer-Hanno.
04 December 2008
A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.
01 January 2008
The press called him the “Pink Giant” or the “Beast from Beelitz”. Before the fall of the Wall, he murdered five women.
07 April 2011
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
01 March 2012
You may not recognize the name Ralf König, but you probably recognize his art. One of the most commercially successful German comic book creators, he is best known for books like “SchwulComix (GayComix)” that offer a twisted take on queer culture.
12 August 1979
A three hour documentary about the tenants of the 24th floor in a high-rise building in the Frankfurter Berg settlement who speak about their living conditions and their lives.
01 January 2015
Starring Rosa von Praunheim & Christian Müller
01 January 1974
Documentary short by Rosa von Praunheim.
26 October 2002
German iconoclast filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa vonPraunheim examines his own life and career in the documentary Phooey Rosa! With a quickly paced editing style, the film is a mix of personal banter, candid interviews, and clips from his filmography.
13 February 2005
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966.
07 March 1969
Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.
26 October 2007
A river trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg, in which mainly German seniors take part. For 14 days you will experience a dense program of churches, art, vodka and the Volga.
22 June 2017
Documentary about the Berlin-based organization ACT and its unusual educational program. Founded by former schoolteacher Maike Plath and two other women, ACT’s aim is to motivate students with troubled backgrounds and to help them learning by engaging them in a drama class.
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
30 October 2013
A youth in middle of self-discovery, offending with his father, just discovering his sexuality and hiding it again.
