He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex, but has been a controversial figure even within the gay community.
A pioneer of Queer Cinema, von Praunheim has been an activist in the gay rights movement. 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. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He lives in Berlin with his companion and assistant Oliver Sechting (born October 5, 1975).Ī prolific director, he has made over seventy feature films. Elisa_rolle Rosa von Praunheim (born 25 November 1942), is a German film director, author, painter and gay rights activist.
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