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Rosa von Praunheim

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Editor, Additional Credits
Born November 25, 1942Died December 17, 2025 (83 years)
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.

Known For

  • The Einstein of Sex
  • It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
  • Die Bettwurst
  • Tough Love
  • Rent Boys
  • Darkroom
  • I Am My Own Woman
  • Fassbinder's Women
  • Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
  • A Virus Knows No Morals
  • City of Lost Souls
  • Queens Don't Cry
  • Silence = Death
  • Berliner Bettwurst
  • König des Comics
  • Positive
  • Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
  • Your Heart in My Head
  • New York Memories
  • Two Mothers
  • Friendship of Men
  • Survival in New York
  • Tally Brown, New York
  • Life Is Like a Cucumber

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