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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
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Rosa von Praunheim
Darkroom
Desire Will Set You Free
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
as Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
as Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
as Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self
Positive
as Self
