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Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim

Birthday: 1942-11-25 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Last Exit Gran Canaria

as    Self

2025
Rosa <3

as    Self (archive footage)

2024
2021
Queer Cinema

as    Himself

2021
Isolation

as    Self

2021
Meine Väter

as    Self

2018
Friendship of Men

as    Himself

2015
Desire Will Set You Free

as    Ezra's Agent

2015
Praunheim Memoires

as    Self

2014
Mario Wirz

as    Self

2013
I Feel Like Disco

as    Rosa von Praunheim

2012
Rosakinder

as    Self

2011
Rent Boys

as    Self

2007
2003
Charlotte in Sweden

as    Self

1996
Transexual Menace

as    Self - Interviewer

1990
Silence = Death

as    Self

1990
Positive

as    Self