Rosa von Praunheim
Born Nov 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.
Known for
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Darkroom
2019
Friendship of Men
2018
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
I Feel Like Disco
2013
King of Comics
2012
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
ANNE WILL
2007
Two Mothers
2007
DAS!
1991
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Survival in New York
1989
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
The Bite
1984
Tally Brown, New York
1979
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
Carla
1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968