Films by Rosa von Praunheim

Germany 2014, 88 min
by Oliver Sechting, Andreas Wolter

How I Learned to Love the Numbers is a New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).The Berlin filmmaker Oliver Sechting (37) and his co-director Max Taubert (23) travel to New York with the idea of documenting the art scene there. However, the project is quickly overshadowed by Oliver’s OCD, and the two directors fall prey to a conflict that becomes the central theme of their film.Encounters with such artists as film directors

Germany 2012, 78 min
by Rosa von Praunheim

Well-known director and frequent visitor to Panorama section Rosa von Praunheim will present his new documentary on Ralf König, KING OF COMICS, at this year's Berlinale. König, one of the most successful German cartoonists, became famous with his comic book THE MOST DESIRED MAN that was made into a film in 1994, starring Til Schweiger. Wittily playing with queer clichés, he also reaches a wide heterosexual audience. In KING OF COMIC Rosa von Praunheim portrays an unpretentious and modest man t

Germany 2011, 83 min
by Rosa von Praunheim

Berlin stories behind sex for money Despised, stigmatised and suppressed to the fringe of society - this is the reality young, male prostitutes face in Berlin. Most of the hustlers are immigrants, a lot of them act out of necessity. Rosa von Praunheim acompanies the young adults at their work in bars, porn movie theatres and on the street. He shows their reasons, their stories and above all, their strong will to survive. with: Sergiu Grimalschi, Lutz Volkwein, Wolfgang Werner, Peter Kern, Maste

Germany 2010, 89 min
by Rosa von Praunheim

20 years after his successful documentary "Survival in New York", Rosa von Praunheim returns to the city, in which he had the most exciting time of his life. Remembering his own experiences in the wild seventies, when New York City was characterized by sexual liberation and eccentric individuals, and recollecting the big changes in the eighties when AIDS started to take its toll, Rosa meets his former protagonists and goes on a personal journey to discover what has become of “his” New York.

Germany 2002, 90 min
by Rosa von Praunheim

Ichgola Androgyn, BeV StroganoV, Tima the Divine and Ovo Maltine are four headstrong drag queens who met in West Berlin in the mid-eighties and have been busy fertilising the cultural scene in both Germany and the rest of the world ever since. Director Rosa von Praunheim has been fortunate enough to work with each of them repeatedly in various films. They all share the fact that they are not mere performers but are also politically active – in AIDS awareness, events against anti-gay violen