
Directing
Born November 25, 1942 · Riga, Latvia
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.

Satanic Sow
2025

Thirty Years with the Whip
2024

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022

Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021

Operndiven - Operntunten
2020

Darkroom
2019

Friendship of Men
2018

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017

ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017

Tough Love
2015

Praunheim Memoires
2015
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014

Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014

Mario Wirz
2014

Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Germans Taste the Best
2012

King of Comics
2012

Rent Boys
2011

20 × Brandenburg
2010

New York Memories
2010
History of Hell
2009

24 Hours Berlin
2009

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008

Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008
Der Rosa Riese
2008
Six Dead Students
2007

Two Mothers
2007
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
2007

Your Heart in My Head
2005

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
2005
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
2005

Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
2005
Charlotte in Sweden
2003
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
2003
Pfui, Rosa!
2002

Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002

Queens Don’t Cry
2002

Fassbinder's Women
2000
Wonderful Wrodow
2000

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1998

Transexual Menace
1996

Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
1995
Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff
1994

I Am My Own Woman
1992
Stolz und schwul
1991
Ein Mann namens Pis
1991

Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990

Fire Under Your Ass
1990

Positive
1990

Silence = Death
1990
Die Weisheit
1990

Survival in New York
1989

Anita – Dances of Vice
1988

Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987

A Virus Knows No Morals
1986

Horror Vacui
1984

Red Love
1983

City of Lost Souls
1983

Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1981

Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979
Der 24. Stock
1979

Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979

Tally Brown, New York
1979
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
1977

I’m an Antistar
1976

Underground and Emigrants
1976

Marianne Rosenberg
1976

Berliner Bettwurst
1975
Axel von Auersperg
1974
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
1974
Monolog eines Stars
1974
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
1972
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Passions
1972

Die Bettwurst
1971

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971
Homosexuelle in New York
1971
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
1971
Sisters of Revolution
1969
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969

Beckett in Berlin
1969
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968

Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Sex und Tod

Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025

Rosa <3
2025

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022

Isolation
2021

Queer Cinema
2021
Meine Väter
2021
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020

Darkroom
2019

Friendship of Men
2018

My Wonderful West Berlin
2017

Desire Will Set You Free
2015

Praunheim Memoires
2015
Vater
2015

How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014

Mario Wirz
2014

I Feel Like Disco
2013

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012

Rosakinder
2012

King of Comics
2012

Rent Boys
2011

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011

On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009

Two Mothers
2007

Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005