Person file · Directing
Rosa von Praunheim
Born 1942-11-25Riga, 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.
Screen work
Movies & roles
Last Exit Gran CanariaSelfRosa <3Self (archive footage)Hape Kerkeling – Total NormalSelfGlückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80RoleCome with Me to the Cinema – The GregorsSelfRex Gildo: The Last DanceErzählerIsolationSelfQueer CinemaHimselfMeine VäterSelfSmart Berlin – Der „Stutti“RoleDarkroomRoleFriendship of MenHimselfMy Wonderful West BerlinRoleDesire Will Set You FreeEzra's AgentPraunheim MemoiresSelfVaterMan in BerlinHow I Learned to Love the NumbersSelfMario WirzSelfI Feel Like DiscoRosa von PraunheimRosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von PraunheimRoleI am a PoemSelfRosakinderSelfKing of ComicsRoleRent BoysSelf