
Rosa von Praunheim
Born November 25, 1942 · Riga, Latvia
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, was a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A prolific director, he has made over seventy feature films. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
Notable Appearances
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Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

Positive

Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Tally Brown, New York

Rosa <3

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

I Feel Like Disco

Meine Väter

Silvo

Carla

King of Comics

Survival in New York

On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema

How I Learned to Love the Numbers

Two Mothers

I Was a Jewish Sex Worker

Darkroom

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

My Wonderful West Berlin

A Virus Knows No Morals

Transexual Menace

I am a Poem

Rent Boys

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

Anita – Dances of Vice

Isolation

Underground and Emigrants

Silence = Death

Mario Wirz

Last Exit Gran Canaria

Praunheim Memoires

Dolly, Lotte and Maria

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

Rosakinder

Fire Under Your Ass

September September

Queer Cinema


















