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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Philip Oltermann European culture editor

Rosa von Praunheim, provocative pioneer of gay cinema, dies aged 83

Rosa von Praunheim at the Berlin film festival in 2015.
Rosa von Praunheim at the Berlin film festival in 2015. Photograph: snapshot-photography/KC Kompe/Shutterstock

Rosa von Praunheim, a key figure of the New German Cinema movement who made taboo-breaking films about queer life and scandalised the country when he outed German celebrities on live TV, has died aged 83.

German media reported that Praunheim died in Berlin in the early hours of Wednesday morning, just days after marrying his long-term partner at a ceremony in the German capital on Friday.

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