Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
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
Friendship of Men
Himself
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
Birth of a Nation
Self
Rosakinder
Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
Mario Wirz
Self
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
Two Mothers
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
