Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim

Directing
🎂 1942-11-25 (83 years old at death)
✝️ 2025-12-17
📍 Riga, Latvia
👤 Male
🎬 43 Movies
🔗 IMDb
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 ...
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Filmography (43 movies)

Last Exit Gran Canaria
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
as Self
Rosa <3
Rosa <3
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
as Self
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
 Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
as Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
as Erzähler
Isolation
Isolation
2021
as Self
Queer Cinema
Queer Cinema
2021
as Himself
Darkroom
Darkroom
2019
 Friendship of Men
Friendship of Men
2018
as Himself
My Wonderful West Berlin
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
 Desire Will Set You Free
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
as Ezra's Agent
Praunheim Memoires
Praunheim Memoires
2015
as Self
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
as Self
Mario Wirz
Mario Wirz
2014
as Self
I Feel Like Disco
I Feel Like Disco
2013
as Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
 Rosakinder
Rosakinder
2012
as Self
King of Comics
King of Comics
2012
 Rent Boys
Rent Boys
2011
as Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
as Self
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
 Two Mothers
Two Mothers
2007
 Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
as Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
as Self
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
 Transexual Menace
Transexual Menace
1996
as Self - Interviewer
Fire Under Your Ass
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
 Positive
Positive
1990
as Self
Silence = Death
Silence = Death
1990
as Self
Survival in New York
Survival in New York
1989
 Anita – Dances of Vice
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
 Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
as Interviewer
A Virus Knows No Morals
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
as Rüdiger Kackinski
September September
September September
1986
as Self (archive footage)
The Bite
The Bite
1984
 Tally Brown, New York
Tally Brown, New York
1979
 Underground and Emigrants
Underground and Emigrants
1976
as Self
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
as Matrose
Carla
Carla
1968
 Von Rosa von Praunheim
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
 Silvo
Silvo
1967
as Self