Rosa von Praunheim
Director
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.
As Director
Filmography
I Feel Like Disco
as Rosa von Praunheim 2013
Darkroom
2019
Rent Boys
as Self 2011
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
as Self 2005
Silence = Death
as Self 1990
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
as Matrose 1975
King of Comics
2012
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler 2022
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self 2007
Positive
as Self 1990
Rosakinder
as Self 2012
A Virus Knows No Morals
as Rüdiger Kackinski 1986
The Bite
1984
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Birth of a Nation
as Self 1997