Rosa von Praunheim
Born November 25, 1942 (Age: 83)
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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.
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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Filmography
Rosa <3
2025
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 82
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Meine Väter
2021
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as Self
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Age: 78
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004
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as Self
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Age: 61
Transexual Menace
1996
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as Self - Interviewer
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Age: 53
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George and Mike Kuchar
1977
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as Self
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Age: 34
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Monolog eines Stars
1974
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as
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Age: 31
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Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
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as
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Age: 29
Carla
1968
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as
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Age: 25
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
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Age: 25