1942-11-25 ( 82 years old ) in Riga, Latvia

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

Rosa <3 2025-02-03
Isolation 2021-09-30
Queer Cinema 2021-07-17
Darkroom 2019-06-08
Vater 2015-01-01
Rosakinder 2012-10-20
King of Comics 2012-03-01
Rent Boys 2011-12-07
Two Mothers 2007-10-27
Pfui, Rosa! 2002-10-26
Positive 1990-05-04
The Bite 1984-01-10
Carla 1968-10-01
Silvo 1967-07-07