Rosa von Praunheim

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