2018Nominee
Best Performance
Friendship of Men
Rosa von Praunheim
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Riga, Latvia
November 25, 1942
Biography
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 concentration camps.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1979Winner
Best Performance
Tally Brown, New York
1984Nominee
Best Performance
The Bite
Career Highlights
2002Highlight
Best Director
Queens Don’t Cry
2000Highlight
Best Director
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
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Tally Brown, New York