Rosa von Praunheimborn 1942
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Director
Popularity
1.5
Famous
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.
Credits
1979
Documentary
Camera Operator, Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
1979
Documentary
Editor, Producer, Cinematography, Writer, Director
1972
Drama
Editor, Writer, Director, Producer
1971
Documentary • Drama • History
Director, Director of Photography, Writer
