Rosa von Praunheim
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.
Movies
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
Darkroom
My Wonderful West Berlin
Desire Will Set You Free
Vater
Man in Berlin
I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
King of Comics
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
Two Mothers
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Fire Under Your Ass
Survival in New York
Anita – Dances of Vice
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Interviewer
A Virus Knows No Morals
Rüdiger Kackinski
The Bite
Tally Brown, New York
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Matrose
Monolog eines Stars
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
Carla
Von Rosa von Praunheim
