Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
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
Rosa <3
2025
Neurasia
1969
The Bite
1984
Meine Väter
2021
Carla
1968
The Bed Sausage
1971
Silvo
1967
Queens Don’t Cry
2002
