FILM DIRECTOR

Rosa von Praunheim

1942 - Today

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Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. A pioneer of Queer Cinema and gay activist from the very beginning, von Praunheim was a key co-founder of the modern lesbian and gay movement in Germany and Switzerland. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa von Praunheim has received more than 187,741 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Rosa von Praunheim is the 841st most popular film director (down from 723rd in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 101st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Latvian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Rosa von Praunheim ranks 841 out of 2,041. Before him are Mick Jackson, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Hong Sang-soo, Raoul Coutard, Benjamin Christensen, and Rustam Ibragimbekov. After him are Alexander Rou, Luis Puenzo, Sergio Martino, András Kovács, Dara Singh, and Sergei Loznitsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Rosa von Praunheim ranks 366. Before him are Sterling Morrison, Billy Bremner, Hannelore Elsner, Pål Tyldum, Norberto Rivera Carrera, and Juan Carlos Sarnari. After him are Paula Kelly, Gregorio Rosa Chávez, Vinicio Cerezo, Tammy Wynette, Vladimir Kovalyonok, and Paul Butterfield.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Rosa von Praunheim ranks 116 out of 323. Before him are Walter Zapp (1905), Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Eduard Tisse (1897), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), and Vitas (1979). After him are Heinz Erhardt (1909), Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887), Elīna Garanča (1976), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Arvīds Pelše (1899), and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Latvia

Among film directors born in Latvia, Rosa von Praunheim ranks 3. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), and Eduard Tisse (1897). After him are Fridrikh Ermler (1898), and Nikolai Ekk (1902).

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Filmography

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Director
Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. His adventures begin on the streets of Berlin, where the shy brunette Daniel meets the blonde Clemens, who invites him home for coffee and offers him a place to stay. Soon Daniel is living with Clemens and believes he has found the love of his life. The two try to imitate a bourgeois marriage and its lifestyle. But after four months of tedium, Daniel is cruised by a rich older man who entices him to move into his villa, where he encounters a group of older gays, pretentious in their appreciations of fine art and classical music, who fawn over him.
Jul 4o 19715.1 / 10
Darkroom
Director
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. What Roland doesn’t know is that, while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is also experimenting with a deadly poison.
Jun 8o 20196.1 / 10
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Director
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. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
Mar 16o 20005.6 / 10