Rosa von Praunheim
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.
43
Films
12
TV Shows
57
Crew Credits
Known For
55 Credits
Behind the Camera
57 Credits
Friendship of Men
Director, Writer, Producer
2018
Mario Wirz
Director
2014
Marianne Rosenberg
Director
1976
Tough Love
Director, Writer, Producer
2015
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director
2020
Die Bettwurst
Director, Writer, Producer
1971
Thirty Years with the Whip
Director
2024
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Director, Producer
2000
Satanic Sow
Director, Writer
2025
Transexual Menace
Director
1996
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Director
2008
A Virus Knows No Morals
Producer, Writer, Director
1986