Rosa von Praunheim — Director (17)
Sisters of Revolution (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Schwestern der Revolution
other title: Schwestern der Revolution
Feminist short film set in West Berlin. A militant group of homosexuals who campaign for women's liberation. Dietmar, who reenacts the oppression and helplessness of women, can only express his protest in one sentence: I don't want to be the Easter Bunny, even though I am sensitive and need affection.
Survival in New York (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Überleben in New York
other title: Überleben in New York
Rosa von Praunheim follows the lives and existential struggles of three contrasting German emigrant women in New York City. The protagonists not only tell of their exciting lives in the hectic metropolis, but many dramatic events also take place during filming.
Positive (1990) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Aids-Trilogie: Positiv – Die Antwort schwuler Männer in New York auf AIDS
other title: Die Aids-Trilogie: Positiv – Die Antwort schwuler Männer in New York auf AIDS / Positiv
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
A Virus Knows No Morals (1986) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ein Virus kennt keine Moral
other title: Ein Virus kennt keine Moral / 病毒可不讲道德
Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his mind on profits. An epidemic victim is harassed by a reporter on his death bed - he sticks her with a contaminated syringe. The government opens a quarantine called Hell Gay Land. Gay terrorists kidnap the Minister of Health...
Anita – Dances of Vice (1988) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Anita - Tänze des Lasters
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Lotti Huber / Ina Blum
other title: Anita - Tänze des Lasters / Anita - Las danzas del vicio
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days, including in her fantasies the hospital's staff and patients, to represent Anita's friends and associates.
Thirty Years with the Whip (2025) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dreißig Jahre an der Peitsche
other title: Zwanzig Jahre an der Peitsche / Dreißig Jahre an der Peitsche
A portrait of Rosa von Praunheim's neighbor, who worked for decades as a professional dominatrix in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district. While the real Lady MacLaine reflects authentically and wittily on her life and work, her life is retold in dramatized scenes.
Darkroom (2019) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Darkroom: Tödliche Tropfen
other title: Darkroom: Tödliche Tropfen / Backroom : Drogue mortelle
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.
Transexual Menace (1996) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Vor Transsexuellen wird gewarnt
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Rosa von Praunheim / Eva Love
other title: Vor Transsexuellen wird gewarnt
Pioneering gay German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim explores America’s burgeoning trans rights movement—from early leaders like Virginia Prince to contemporary activist groups like the titular Transexual Menace—in this powerful, yet sensitive documentary.
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Männer, Helden, schwule Nazis
other title: Männer, Helden, schwule Nazis / Heroes and Gay Nazis
The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis. Rosa von Praunheim stated of the subjects featured in the documentary, “Some may be shocked that I do not take a stand in my film and do not portray gay neo-Nazis as monsters, but as people living their lives in dramatic contradiction.”
Satanic Sow (2025) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Satanische Sau
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Armin Dallapiccola / Emanuela von Frankenberg
other title: Satanische Sau / The Satanic Sow
Rosa von Praunheim is the satanic sow, incarnated by the wanton actor Armin Dallapiccola. A poetic compendium of life and death with pushy fans, the Good Lord, lovers and Rosa’s horrified mother.
Your Heart in My Head (2005) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dein Herz in meinem Hirn
other title: Dein Herz in meinem Hirn
A retelling of the events that led to the death of Bernd Juergen Brandes. Brandes responded to Armin Meiwes' Internet ad in 2001, where Meiwes indicated that he was looking for a man willing to be killed and eaten.




阿明·迈韦斯(Armin Meiwes,1961年-),德国埃森人,原本职业为电脑技术人员。他因为在互联网联系上一名自愿者Bernd Jürgen Brandes一起安排计划杀死并吃掉他。2002年冬被捕后因为其行为而闻名于世,德国国内更被蔑称为“罗滕堡之食人鬼”(Kannibale von Rotenburg)或“大屠夫”(Der Metzgermeister)。入狱后迈韦斯改变为素食者,并志愿协助处理人食人个案及有实行或被同类相食倾向的病人。
迈韦斯先在互联网上一个同类相食网站“The Cannibal Cafe”刊登广告物色吞吃对象,并写下条件“寻找18到30岁拥有良好体格,愿意被杀后被吃掉的人。”尽管申请人众多,但迈韦斯最后只选择了有易服癖的Bernd Jürgen Brandes。根据二人自行录制的录像带显示,事件发生在2001年圣诞节,迈韦斯在罗滕堡村庄的住所,迈韦斯将Brandes的阴茎锯掉并二人一起将其生吃,迈韦斯本想用啃但不成功,后来他用刀子切开,Brandes也形容它韧而黏而难以进食。接着迈韦斯拿剩下的阴茎放到锅里嫩煎,并以盐、胡椒和大蒜调味,但结果因为煎过火而被废弃了。不过根据看过这录像带的记者形容(录像带被执法人员搜到后一直没对一般民众公开),Brandes应该因为失血而没有气力去咀嚼自己的阴茎。之后迈韦斯给了Brandes大量止痛药、安眠药和烈酒,自己在一边阅读3小时的科幻小说,任由Brandes在浴缸中沐浴失血至死。最后他吻了Brandes一口,将他搬动到家中特别设置的屠房,对Brandes的喉咙刺了一刀,用挂肉钩吊起他的尸体并撕掉一大片肉,迈韦斯甚至尝试将他的骨磨成粉。其后的10个月将被切开部位贮藏在冰箱中,继续进食最少20公斤Brandes的尸体。
迈韦斯于2002年12月被捕,在此之前他显然还在互联网上发布信息寻找新的受害者。
King of Comics (2012) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
König des Comics
other title: 漫画之王 / König des Comics
You may not recognize the name Ralf König, but you probably recognize his art. One of the most commercially successful German comic book creators, he is best known for books like “SchwulComix (GayComix)” that offer a twisted take on queer culture. Equal parts Tom of Finland and R. Crumb, König’s comics are sexually charged and often politically incorrect, portraying daily routines of gay life alongside serious subjects like AIDS. King of Comics is a touching portrait of a cutting-edge artist with a wicked sense of humor. All hail the king! —Jimmy Radosta
法斯宾德的女人们 (2000) [Movie] Douban
Für mich gab's nur noch Fassbinder
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: 汉娜·许古拉 / 伊尔姆·赫尔曼
other title: Für mich gab's nur noch Fassbinder / Fassbinder's Women
法斯宾达,是德国电影史上的怪才大师。二十岁起创作作品已遍及剧场、电影和电视,是早期德国新电影重要的一员。性格喜怒无常的他,感情生活扑朔迷离,男人女人都为他倾倒、自愿受他的奴役折磨。 37岁便因为嗑药酗酒过量致死,英年早逝更使他充满神奇色彩。 本片导演走访多位法斯宾达生前重要的合作夥伴和情人,尝试勾勒出这位传奇人物背后的深层影响, 带领观众走进法斯宾达如行走于刀锋上的创作主题与生命情调。
Horror vacui (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Horror Vacui
other title: Horror Vacui / Horror Vacui – Die Angst vor der Leere
Horror Vacui (German: Horror Vacui - Die Angst vor der Leere ) is a 1984 German film directed by Rosa von Praunheim.[1] Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in Berlin. One is studying art and the other medicine. Their happy life is disrupted when Frankie attends a lecture and quickly becomes involved in a sinister cult operating as a self-help group called “Optimal Optimism”. Madame C, a former Nazi party member, is the leader of Optimal Optimism. When the cult members discovers that Frankie is gay, he is repeatedly raped by both men and women of the group. Hannes must find a way to rescue him.
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (1999) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Einstein des Sex, Der
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Friedel von Wangenheim / Kai Schumann
other title: 男极圈 / Einstein des Sex, Der
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.
Silence = Death (1990) [Movie] Douban
Die Aids-Trilogie: Schweigen = Tod
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Bern Boyle / Emilio Cubeiro
other title: 沉默等于死亡 / Die Aids-Trilogie: Schweigen = Tod
In dem zweiten Teil der Trilogie wird es das überlieferte Statement des Gouverneurs von Texas sein, das Amerikas faschistoiden Sexismus auf den Punkt bringt: »Wenn du Aids stoppen willst«, so der Politiker, der sich nicht auf Sendung glaubte, zu einem Rundfunkreporter,»dann knall die Schwulen ab«. »Schweigen = Tod« versammelt wie »Positiv« eine Vielzahl von Kurzportraits, die durch ihre Radikalität und Offenheit beeindrucken. Diesmal sind es aber hauptsächlich Akteure der New Yorker Kunstszene, die Rosa von Praunheims behutsame und doch fordernde Interviewtechnik zur Selbstentäußerung bewegt.
Allen Ginsburg, der eine Hymne auf seinen Schließmuskel verliest, oder der an Aids verstorbene Maler Keith Haring, der seine pictogrammähnlich typisierten Männchen auf T-Shirts in Serie für Safer-Sex-Kampagnen antanzen läßt, gehören dabei zu den gemäßigteren Fürsprechern der Aufklärung.