Rosa von Praunheim

Directing

Born 1942-11-25 · died 2025-12-17 · Riga, Latvia

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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

Fire Under Your AssHow I Learned to Love the NumbersDolly, Lotte and MariaHape Kerkeling – Total NormalThrough the Night with...Survival in New YorkTally Brown, New YorkChez KrömerDie Harald Schmidt ShowBirth of a Nation