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

Now screening in Brussels

Transexual Menace

1996

vr 21 aug · 19:00 Cinematek · Ledoux Book

I Am My Own Woman

1992

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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld

2000

za 22 aug · 21:00 Cinematek · Ledoux Book

Two Mothers

2007

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Tough Love

2015

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Also by Rosa von Praunheim

Positive

1990

Fire Under Your Ass

1990

Survival in New York

1989

Silence = Death

1989

Anita – Dances of Vice

1988

A Virus Knows No Morals

1986

Horror Vacui

1984

City of Lost Souls

1983

Red Love

1983

Our Corpses Are Still Alive

1981

Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts

1979

Tally Brown, New York

1979

I’m an Antistar

1976

Berliner Bettwurst

1975

Passions

1972

Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim

1971

Die Bettwurst

1971

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives

1971