Rosa von Praunheim
Riga, Latvia
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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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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
