Rosa von Praunheim
Born: 1942-11-25
• Riga, Latvia
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.
Filmography
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Rosa <3
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Isolation
Queer Cinema
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Meine Väter
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
Darkroom
Friendship of Men
My Wonderful West Berlin
Desire Will Set You Free
Praunheim Memoires
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Vater
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Mario Wirz
I Feel Like Disco
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosakinder
King of Comics
Rent Boys
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
Two Mothers
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
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Charlotte in Sweden
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Pfui, Rosa!
Birth of a Nation
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Transexual Menace
Fire Under Your Ass
Positive
Silence = Death
Survival in New York
Anita – Dances of Vice
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
A Virus Knows No Morals
September September
The Bite
Tally Brown, New York
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George and Mike Kuchar
Underground and Emigrants
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
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Monolog eines Stars
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Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
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Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
Carla
Von Rosa von Praunheim
Silvo