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Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Born: November 25, 1942
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 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

How I Learned to Love the Numbers
as Self

Rent Boys
as Self

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
as Self

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
as Self

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler

Darkroom

Friendship of Men
as Himself

Desire Will Set You Free

Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self