Overview
Rosa von Praunheim
Known For
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer...
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked...
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless...
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
Biography
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.