Rosa von Praunheim
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-11-25 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvia
Rosa von Praunheim
Biography
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is 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
Acting
(2025)
Rosa <3
as Himself (archive footage)
(2024)
(2022)
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler
(2022)
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Rosa von Praunheim
(2022)
(2021)
Isolation
as Self
(2021)
Queer Cinema
as Himself
(2020)
(2019)
(2018)
Friendship of Men
as Himself
(2017)
(2015)
Vater
as Man in Berlin
(2015)
(2015)
Praunheim Memoires
as Self
(2014)
(2013)
I Feel Like Disco
as Rosa von Praunheim
(2012)
(2012)
Rosakinder
as Self
(2012)
(2011)
Rent Boys
as Self
(2011)
(2009)
(2007)
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self
(2007)
(2005)
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
as Self
(2004)
(2003)
Charlotte in Sweden
as Self
(2002)
Pfui, Rosa!
as Self
(1997)
Birth of a Nation
as Self
(1996)
(1996)
Transexual Menace
as Self - Interviewer
(1990)
(1990)
Positive
as Self
(1990)
Silence = Death
as Self
(1989)
(1988)
(1987)
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
as Interviewer
(1986)
September September
as (archive footage)
(1986)
A Virus Knows No Morals
as Rüdiger Kackinski
(1984)
(1979)
(1977)
George and Mike Kuchar
as Self
(1976)
Underground and Emigrants
as Self
(1975)
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
as Matrose
(1972)
(1968)
(1968)
(1967)
Silvo
as Self
Crew
Sex und Tod
Writer, Director
(2025)
Satanic Sow
Director, Writer, Editor
(2024)
Thirty Years with the Whip
Director
(2022)
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Writer, Director, Producer
(2021)
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Director, Producer
(2020)
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director
(2019)
Darkroom
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(2018)
Friendship of Men
Director, Writer, Producer
(2017)
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Director, Writer, Editor
(2017)
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Director
(2015)
Tough Love
Director, Writer, Producer
(2015)
Praunheim Memoires
Writer, Producer, Director
(2014)
Mario Wirz
Director
(2014)
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
Director
(2014)
(2014)
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Writer, Director
(2012)
King of Comics
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
(2012)
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Writer, Producer, Editor, Director
(2011)
Rent Boys
Director, Writer, Producer
(2010)
New York Memories
Director
(2010)
20 × Brandenburg
Director
(2009)
History of Hell
Director
(2009)
24 Hours Berlin
Director
(2008)
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Director, Editor, Screenplay
(2008)
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Director
(2008)
Rosa Riese
Director
(2007)
Six Dead Students
Screenplay, Director
(2007)
Two Mothers
Director, Writer
(2007)
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
Director
(2005)
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Director, Writer, Producer
(2005)
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
Director, Writer
(2005)
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Writer, Director
(2005)
Your Heart in My Head
Director
(2005)
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
Director, Writer
(2005)
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
Director, Writer
(2003)
Charlotte in Sweden
Director
(2003)
(2002)
Queens Don’t Cry
Screenplay, Producer, Director
(2002)
Pfui, Rosa!
Director
(2002)
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
Screenplay, Director
(2000)
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Director, Producer
(2000)
Fassbinder’s Women
Director
(2000)
Wonderful Wrodow
Director
(1998)
(1996)
Transexual Menace
Director
(1995)
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
Director, Writer, Producer
(1992)
I Am My Own Woman
Screenplay, Director, Producer
(1991)
Ein Mann namens Pis
Director, Producer
(1991)
Stolz und schwul
Director
(1990)
Silence = Death
Director, Writer, Editor
(1990)
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Director, Writer, Producer
(1990)
Positive
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
(1990)
Fire Under Your Ass
Director, Writer, Producer
(1990)
Die Weisheit
Director
(1989)
Survival in New York
Director, Writer
(1988)
Anita – Dances of Vice
Writer, Director, Editor, Producer
(1987)
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Director, Writer, Producer
(1986)
A Virus Knows No Morals
Producer, Writer, Director
(1984)
Horror Vacui
Director, Writer
(1983)
City of Lost Souls
Writer, Director
(1983)
Red Love
Writer, Director
(1981)
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
Director
(1979)
Tally Brown, New York
Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Director
(1979)
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
Editor, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Director
(1979)
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
Camera Operator, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
(1979)
Der 24. Stock
Director
(1977)
George and Mike Kuchar
Director
(1977)
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
Director
(1976)
Underground and Emigrants
Director of Photography, Producer, Writer, Director
(1976)
Marianne Rosenberg
Director
(1976)
I’m an Antistar
Director
(1975)
Berliner Bettwurst
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
(1974)
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
Director
(1972)
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
Editor, Producer, Director, Writer
(1972)
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
Director of Photography, Director, Writer
(1972)
Passions
Director
(1971)
Die Bettwurst
Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Writer
(1971)
Homosexuelle in New York
Director
(1971)
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
(1969)
Beckett in Berlin
Director
(1969)
Schwestern der Revolution
Director
(1969)
(1969)
Neurasia
Assistant Director
(1968)
(A)lter (A)ction
Assistant Director
(1968)
(1968)
Von Rosa von Praunheim
Director