Rosa von Praunheim
Born in Riga, Latvia — Nov 25 1942• Died Dec 17 2025
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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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Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Je später der Abend
Self
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Directing
Pantoffelkino
Self - Guest
Friendship of Men
Himself
Thirty Years with the Whip
Directing
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
Isolation
Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Writing
Birth of a Nation
Self
I Am My Own Woman
Writing
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Directing
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Writing
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self
Rosakinder
Self
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
Editing
Satanic Sow
Directing
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
Self
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
Silvo
Self
Tough Love
Directing
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
Fassbinder's Women
Directing
Pfui, Rosa!
Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Silence = Death
Self
Die Bettwurst
Directing
The Bite
Mario Wirz
Self
Horror Vacui
Directing
New York Memories
Directing
Two Mothers
Your Heart in My Head
Directing
Tally Brown, New York
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Interviewer
Rent Boys
Self
Der Rosa Riese
Directing
I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
Six Dead Students
Directing
Berliner Bettwurst
Production
Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)
Underground and Emigrants
Self
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
Directing
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
Writing
Wonderful Wrodow
Directing
Desire Will Set You Free
Ezra's Agent
September September
Self (archive footage)
Darkroom
Carla
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Camera
King of Comics
20 × Brandenburg
Directing
History of Hell
Directing
City of Lost Souls
Directing
Neurasia
Directing
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
Camera
Meine Väter
Self
Die Weisheit
Directing
Positive
Self
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Directing
Transexual Menace
Self - Interviewer
A Virus Knows No Morals
Rüdiger Kackinski
My Wonderful West Berlin
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
Directing
24 Hours Berlin
Directing
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
Directing
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
Directing
Passions
Directing
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Marianne Rosenberg
Directing
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Directing
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Matrose
Beckett in Berlin
Directing
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Sex und Tod
Writing
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Praunheim Memoires
Self
Anita – Dances of Vice
Homosexuelle in New York
Directing
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
Directing
Queens Don’t Cry
Directing
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Directing
Operndiven - Operntunten
Directing
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
Directing
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Self
(A)lter (A)ction
Directing
Red Love
Directing
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Directing
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
Directing
Charlotte in Sweden
Self
Der 24. Stock
Directing
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
Directing
Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff
Directing
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
Directing
Axel von Auersperg
Directing
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
Sisters of Revolution
Directing
George and Mike Kuchar
Self
Ein Mann namens Pis
Production
Fire Under Your Ass
I’m an Antistar
Directing
Stolz und schwul
Directing
Survival in New York
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
Directing
Vater
Man in Berlin
Queer Cinema
Himself
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Production
Germans Taste the Best
Directing
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
Production
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
Directing
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
Directing
Monolog eines Stars
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
Directing
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
Directing
Von Rosa von Praunheim