Rosa von Praunheim
Born: 1942-11-25
From: Riga, Latvia
About: 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.
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
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September September
Self (archive footage)
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
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Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Matrose
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On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
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How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
Show InfoEin bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
Self
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A Virus Knows No Morals
Rüdiger Kackinski
Show InfoFootage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
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