Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim was born in Riga in 1942 and grew up near Berlin and in Frankfurt am Main. He is considered an important representative of postmodern German film in the genres of documentary, auteur and avant-garde film. Above all, with his 1971 documentary Not the homosexual is perverted, but the situation in which he lives, he paved the way for and became one of the co-founders of the political gay and lesbian movement in the Federal Republic of Germany. His work includes numerous films, books, radio plays and plays and has received many awards. In 2015, he received the Federal Cross of Merit. He celebrated his 77th birthday in 2019 at the Deutsches Theater with his production Every idiot has a grandma, just not me. For his services to German-language film and as a "pioneer of the gay movement in West Germany", Rosa von Praunheim received the Saarbrücken Film Festival's honorary award, the Max Ophüls Prize 2020. At the 2020 Autorentheatertage, Rosa von Praunheim's text Hitler's goat and the hemorrhoids of the king was one of the three winning texts that were premiered at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.