
Rosa von Praunheim
- Date of Birth: 1942-11-25
- Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Biography
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A prolific ... Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is 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.

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Documentary • 2011 April

Friendship of Men
Documentary, Drama • 2018 December

Transexual Menace
Documentary • 1996 June

Rosakinder
Documentary • 2012 October

King of Comics
Documentary, Comedy • 2012 March

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Drama • 1975 October

Anita – Dances of Vice
Drama, Comedy • 1988 February

Tally Brown, New York
Documentary • 1979 May

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Documentary • 2022 November

The Bite
Drama, Horror • 1984 January