Rosa von Praunheim
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.
Directed (89)
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
Acting (53)
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
