Person
Rosa von Praunheim
Directing · 1942–2025 · Riga, Latvia
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.
Known for
ZIBB
Self
Markus Lanz
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
NDR Talk Show
Self
Nachtstudio
Self
Kölner Treff
Self
DAS!
1991
3 nach 9
Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
Self
Zimmer frei!
Self
Filmography
- 2026Mein liebster DokumentarfilmSelf
- 2025Satanic SowDirector
- 2025Last Exit Gran CanariaSelf
- 2025Rosa <3Self (archive footage)
- 2024Hape Kerkeling – Total NormalSelf
- 2024Thirty Years with the WhipDirector
- 2022Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
- 2022Come with Me to the Cinema – The GregorsSelf
- 2022Rex Gildo: The Last DanceErzähler
- 2021Die Nachtigall – Der grausame SohnDirector
- 2021IsolationSelf
- 2021Legendär!Self
- 2021Queer CinemaHimself
- 2021Meine VäterSelf
- 2020Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
- 2020Operndiven - OperntuntenDirector
- 2019Chez KrömerSelf
- 2019Darkroom
- 2018Friendship of MenHimself
- 2017Survival in Berlin-NeuköllnDirector
- 2017AbendshowSelf
- 2017ACT! Wer bin ich?Director
- 2017My Wonderful West Berlin
- 2015Desire Will Set You FreeEzra's Agent
- 2015Tough LoveDirector
- 2015Praunheim MemoiresSelf
- 2015VaterMan in Berlin
- 2014How I Learned to Love the NumbersSelf
- 2014Hitler und Jesus – eine LiebesgeschichteDirector
- 2014Auf der Suche nach HeilernWriter
- 2014Mario WirzSelf
- 2014Laura – Das Juwel von StuttgartDirector
- 2013I Feel Like DiscoRosa von Praunheim
- 2013PantoffelkinoSelf - Guest
- 2012Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
- 2012I am a PoemSelf
- 2012RosakinderSelf
- 2012Germans Taste the BestDirector
- 2012King of Comics
- 2011Rent BoysSelf
- 2011Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner SchroeterSelf
- 201020 × BrandenburgDirector
- 2010New York MemoriesDirector
- 2009History of HellDirector
- 2009On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
- 200924 Hours BerlinDirector
- 2008Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?Director
- 2008Markus LanzSelf
- 2008Dead Gay Men and Living LesbiansDirector
- 2008Paris-Berlin, le débatSelf
- 2008Der Rosa RieseDirector
- 2007Six Dead StudentsScreenplay
- 2007Two Mothers
- 2007Mit Olga auf der WolgaDirector
- 2007ANNE WILL
- 20070511 TV LokalSelf
- 2007Here’s Looking at You, BoySelf
- 2006Das perfekte Promi-DinnerSelf
- 2005Your Heart in My HeadDirector
- 2005Men, Heroes and Gay NazisSelf
- 2005Who is Helene Schwarz?Writer
- 2005Schwein gehabt – Joe LugaDirector
- 2005Liebe und Leid – Albrecht BeckerDirector
- 2005Umsonst Gelebt: Walter SchwarzeDirector
- 2004Ein bisschen Luft unter die FlügelSelf
- 2004Im PalaisSelf
- 2003ZIBBSelf
- 2003Menschen bei MaischbergerSelf
- 2003Charlotte in SwedenSelf
- 2003Ratten 07 – Im Berliner DschungelDirector
- 2002Pfui, Rosa!Self
- 2002Cows Knocked Up by FogScreenplay
- 2002Through the Night with...Self
- 2002Queens Don’t CryScreenplay
- 2000Fassbinder's WomenDirector
- 2000Wonderful WrodowDirector
- 2000The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. HirschfeldDirector
- 1998Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay MovementDirector
- 1997NachtstudioSelf
- 1997Birth of a NationSelf
- 1997Tietjen und BommesSelf
- 1996I Was a Jewish Sex WorkerSelf
- 1996Zimmer frei!Self
- 1996Transexual MenaceSelf - Interviewer
- 1995Die Harald Schmidt ShowSelf
- 1995Neurosia: Fifty Years of PerversityDirector
- 1994Meine Oma hatte einen NazipuffDirector
- 1992I Am My Own WomanScreenplay
- 1991Proud and GayDirector
- 1991Ein Mann namens PisDirector
- 1991DAS!
- 1990Life Is Like a CucumberDirector
- 1990Fire Under Your Ass
- 1990PositiveSelf
- 1990Silence = DeathSelf
- 1990Die WeisheitDirector
- 1989Survival in New York
- 1988Anita – Dances of Vice
- 1987live - die ZDF-talkshowSelf
- 1987Dolly, Lotte and MariaInterviewer
- 1986A Virus Knows No MoralsRüdiger Kackinski
- 1986September SeptemberSelf (archive footage)
- 1984Horror VacuiDirector
- 1984The Bite
- 1983Red LoveWriter
- 1983City of Lost SoulsWriter
- 1981Our Corpses Are Still AliveDirector
- 1979Death Magazine: or How to Be a FlowerpotCamera Operator
- 1979Der 24. StockDirector
- 1979Tally Brown, New York
- 1979Army of Lovers or Revolt of the PervertsEditor
- 1979NDR Talk ShowSelf
- 1978Bio’s BahnhofSelf
- 1977George and Mike KucharSelf
- 1977Sigrid Gräfin von RichthofenDirector
- 1976I’m an AntistarDirector
- 1976Underground and EmigrantsSelf
- 1976Kölner TreffSelf
- 1976Marianne RosenbergDirector
- 1975Berliner BettwurstDirector
- 1975The Enchantment of the Blue SailorsMatrose
- 19743 nach 9Self
- 1974Axel von AuerspergDirector
- 1974Monolog eines Stars
- 1974Rosa von Praunheim zeigtDirector
- 1973Je später der AbendSelf
- 1972Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr herausEditor
- 1972Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
- 1972PassionsDirector
- 1972Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
- 1971Die BettwurstDirector of Photography
- 1971It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He LivesDirector
- 1971Homosexuelle in New YorkDirector
- 1971Macbeth Oper von Rosa von PraunheimDirector
- 1969Sisters of RevolutionDirector
- 1969Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. TeilDirector
- 1969NeurasiaAssistant Director
- 1969Beckett in BerlinDirector
- 1968Carla
- 1968(A)lter (A)ctionAssistant Director
- 1968Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. TeilDirector
- 1968Von Rosa von Praunheim
- 1967SilvoSelf
- 1964Grimme AwardSelf
- —Sex und TodWriter
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