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.
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Filmography
Acting Credits (80)
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self
2026
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Self
2025
Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)
2025
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
2024
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022