Rosa von Praunheim
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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Movies (45)
Satanic Sow
Director (Directing)
2025
Last Exit Gran Canaria
as Self
2025
Rosa <3
as Himself (archive footage)
2025
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
as Self
2024
Thirty Years with the Whip
Director (Directing)
2024
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler
2022
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Producer (Production)
2021
Isolation
as Self
2021
Queer Cinema
as Himself
2021
Meine Väter
as Self
2021
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director (Directing)
2020
Darkroom
2019
Friendship of Men
as Himself
2018
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Director (Directing)
2017
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Director (Directing)
2017
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
Tough Love
Director (Directing)
2015
Praunheim Memoires
as Self
2015
Vater
as Man in Berlin
2015
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
as Self
2014
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
Director (Directing)
2014
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Writer (Writing)
2014
Mario Wirz
as Self
2014
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
Director (Directing)
2014
I Feel Like Disco
as Rosa von Praunheim
2013
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rosakinder
as Self
2012
Germans Taste the Best
Director (Directing)
2012
King of Comics
2012
Rent Boys
as Self
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
as Self
2011
20 × Brandenburg
Director (Directing)
2010
New York Memories
Director (Directing)
2010
History of Hell
Director (Directing)
2009
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
24 Hours Berlin
Director (Directing)
2009
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Director (Directing)
2008
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Director (Directing)
2008
Der Rosa Riese
Director (Directing)
2008
Six Dead Students
Director (Directing)
2007
Two Mothers
2007
