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Rosa von Praunheim

Directing · Died aged 83

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TMDB ID
19864 ↗
Born
1942-11-25
Died
2025-12-17
Age at death
83
Place of birth
Riga, Latvia
Known for
Directing

Biography

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.

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Filmography

Directing92
Acting82
Writing53
Producing32
Editing17
Cinematography and camera10
Art1