Rosa von Praunheim
February 3, 2008
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Rosa von Praunheim (stage name of Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky born November 25, 1942 in Riga, Latvia) is a German film director and gay rights activist. He is considered to be an important representative of postmodern German film. Especially his documentary film „It’s Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, but the Situation in Which He Lives“ („Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt“) from 1970 made him to one of the initiators of the gay rights movement in Germany.
His films have featured such personalities as Jayne County, Vaginal Davis, Divine and Jeff Stryker.
