Rosa von Praunheim

"Hossa! Hossa! Hossa! Hossa!" Rex Gildo became famous with his "Fiesta Mexicana". As a German pop star, he brought songs about foreign countries and lavish parties to the staid young Federal Republic of Germany, sang about the exuberant life, while he himself was forced to hide his homosexuality in the repressive society of the 1950s and 1960s and perform a never-aging hetero son-in-law dream, even marrying his own cousin. His long-standing relationship with his discoverer and manager Fred Miekley had to remain secret. With the death of his lover, Rex Gildo's life and career slipped away; addicted to pills and alcohol, he now performed in shopping centres and died tragically when he fell from the window of his Munich flat in 1999.
In the play based on the film of the same name, Rosa von Praunheim tells a half-fictional, half-documentary story of the tragicomic decline of the pop star. (Theatre Münster)