Rosa von Praunheim
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1942-11-25 · Riga, Latvia
- Died
- 2025-12-17
Known for
- I Feel Like Disco (2013) — Rosa von Praunheim
- It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) — Director of Photography
- Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995) — Self
- Darkroom (2019) — Schlafender in S-Bahn
- The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (2000) — Director
- Tough Love (2015) — Director
- Rent Boys (2011) — Self
- Markus Lanz (2008) — Self
- The Bed Sausage (1971) — Director
- Zimmer frei! (1996) — Self
- Desire Will Set You Free (2015) — Ezra's Agent
- Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? (2008) — Director
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005) — Self
- Anita – Dances of Vice (1988)
- Chez Krömer (2019) — Self
- Fassbinder's Women (2000) — Director