

Rosa von Praunheim
Acting
November 25, 1942
Riga, Latvia
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is 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.
The Filmography


Darkroom

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

ACT! Wer bin ich?

Desire Will Set You Free

Tough Love

Rosakinder

Rent Boys

New York Memories

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement

Transexual Menace

Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity

I Am My Own Woman

Positive

Silence = Death

Survival in New York
