“Do you have good sex? Do you enjoy your work? How is your relationship going?” One visited Rosa von Praunheim in his old apartment in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, people were asked questions like these, which they then asked him too, and so people talked about everything as casually as about the weather. Why not?
Why not show the first kiss between two men on German television? That was in 1971 film It is not the homosexual who is perverted, but the situation in which he lives. In it, Rosa von Praunheim shows and criticizes the “hidden” gay life in the subculture. He tours Germany and the world with the film, facing questions, attacks and angry defenses. It is the beginning of the German gay and lesbian movement. Created at the same time The bed sausage, the love story between a young man and an older woman, played by Praunheim’s beloved aunt Luzi. It is the exaggeration of a heterosexual relationship, a film in the spirit of Susan Sontag camp was, and in the end the couple flies to a happy ending in a sports plane.
