Rosa von Praunheim
Directing · 83 years old
Riga, 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.
Known For
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
Survival in New York
Through the Night with...
Self
Chez Krömer
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Tally Brown, New York
Kölner Treff
Self
Zimmer frei!
Self
NDR Talk Show
Self
My Wonderful West Berlin
Birth of a Nation
Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
Markus Lanz
Self
Darkroom
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Matrose
Rent Boys
Self
Rosakinder
Self
Behind the Scenes
24 Hours Berlin
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Survival in New York
Writer
Survival in New York
Director
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Director
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director
Tally Brown, New York
Producer
Tally Brown, New York
Writer
Tally Brown, New York
Director
Thirty Years with the Whip
Director
Tough Love
Director
Tough Love
Producer
Tough Love
Writer