Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Born: 1942-11-25 in Riga, Latvia
Biography
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
Markus Lanz
Self
DAS!
DAS!
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Kölner Treff
Self
NDR Talk Show
Self
Zimmer frei!
Self
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
Self
ANNE WILL
Through the Night with...
Self
Friendship of Men
Himself
Legendär!
Self
Chez Krömer
Self
The Bite
Tally Brown, New York
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
Meine Väter
Self
Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)
Silvo
Self
Birth of a Nation
Self
Survival in New York
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
King of Comics
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Self