Rosa von Praunheim
- Directing
- November 25, 1942 · Riga, Latvia
- December 17, 2025
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm · Self
- Satanic Sow · Director, Writer
- Last Exit Gran Canaria · Self
- Rosa <3 · Self
- Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal · Self
- Thirty Years with the Whip · Director, Author
- Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
- Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors · Self
- Rex Gildo: The Last Dance · Erzähler, Writer
- Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn · Director, Producer
- Isolation · Self
- Legendär! · Self
- Queer Cinema · Self
- Meine Väter · Self
- Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
- Operndiven - Operntunten · Director
- Chez Krömer · Self
- Darkroom · Schlafender in S-Bahn, Director
- Friendship of Men · Self, Director
- Survival in Berlin-Neukölln · Director, Writer
- Abendshow · Self
- ACT! Wer bin ich? · Director
- My Wonderful West Berlin
- Desire Will Set You Free · Ezra's Agent
- Tough Love · Director, Producer
- Praunheim Memoires · Self, Producer
- Vater · Man in Berlin
- How I Learned to Love the Numbers · Self
- Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte · Director
- Auf der Suche nach Heilern · Writer, Director
- Mario Wirz · Self, Director
- Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart · Director
- I Feel Like Disco · Rosa von Praunheim
- Pantoffelkino · Self
- Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim · Editing, Producer
- I am a Poem · Self, Producer
- Axel und Peter - Titten für Arsch · Director, Writer
- Rosakinder · Self
- Germans Taste the Best · Director
- King of Comics · Director, Producer
- Rent Boys · Self, Director
- Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter · Self
- 20 × Brandenburg · Director
- New York Memories · Director, Writer
- History of Hell · Director
- On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
- 24 Hours Berlin · Director
- Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? · Director, Editing
- Markus Lanz · Self
- Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians · Director
- Paris-Berlin, le débat · Self
- Der Rosa Riese · Director
- Six Dead Students · Director, Screenplay
- Two Mothers · Director, Writer
- Mit Olga auf der Wolga · Director
- ANNE WILL
- 0511 TV Lokal · Self
- Here’s Looking at You, Boy · Self
- Das perfekte Promi-Dinner · Self
- Your Heart in My Head · Director, Screenplay
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis · Self, Director
- Who is Helene Schwarz? · Writer, Director
- Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga · Writer, Director
- Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker · Director, Writer
- Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze · Director, Writer
- Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel · Self
- Im Palais · Self
- ZIBB · Self
- Menschen bei Maischberger · Self
- Charlotte in Sweden · Self, Director
- Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel · Director
- Pfui, Rosa! · Self, Director
- Cows Knocked Up by Fog · Director, Screenplay
- Through the Night with... · Self
- Queens Don’t Cry · Screenplay, Producer
- Fassbinder's Women · Director
- Wonderful Wrodow · Director
- The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld · Director, Producer
- Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement · Director
- Nachtstudio · Self