Awards & Winners

Rosa von Praunheim

Date of Birth 25-November-1942
Place of Birth Riga
(Latvia)
Nationality Germany, Latvia
Also know as Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky, Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, Holger Mischwitzky, Prof. Rosa von Praunheim, Holger Radtke
Profession Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Painter, Film Editor, Cinematographer, Writer, Actor
Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, painter and gay rights activist. 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. A pioneer of Queer Cinema, von Praunheim has been an activist in the gay rights movement. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex, but has been a controversial figure even within the gay community. His films center on gay related themes and strong female characters. His works are characterized by excess and employ a campy style. His films have featured such personalities as Jayne County, Vaginal Davis, Divine, and Jeff Stryker.

Awards by Rosa von Praunheim

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rosa von Praunheim.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Teddy Award for Best Documentary Rent Boys

1979


German Film Award in Silver for Outstanding Non-Feature Film
Honored for : Tally Brown, New York

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award in Silver for Outstanding Non-Feature Film Tally Brown, New York