Praunheim has created over 40 films, almost all controversial, as befits the "senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. Moerover "Rosa" means "Pink" and he choiose it also to remember the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps. This "bad boy of the German gay scene" took a female name in 1967 when he began directing, in a reversal of the habit of female writers in centuries past, who often took male names in order to get their works published. Praunheim is a film and stage director, as well as a writer. Last update of this page: February 12 th 2002īorn in Riga, Latvia, as Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitsky, he grew up in Praunheim, a suburb of Frankfurt. Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Rosa von Praunheim
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