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Rosa von Praunheim

German film director

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born
1942
died
2025
age at death
83
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actor, film director, screenwriter

1942 – 2025

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Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky, known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, was a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. A pioneer of Queer Cinema and gay activist, von Praunheim was a key co-founder of the modern lesbian and gay movement in West Germany and Switzerland. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex.

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