Rosa von Praunheim
Directing • Born 1942-11-25 – Died 2025-12-17
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.
Filmography
80 credits
Isolation
Movie • 2021
Self
George and Mike Kuchar
Movie • 1977
Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Movie • 2022
Erzähler
Silvo
Movie • 1967
Self
Charlotte in Sweden
Movie • 2003
Self
Vater
Movie • 2015
Man in Berlin
Pfui, Rosa!
Movie • 2002
Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Movie • 2005
Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Movie • 2007
Self
Queer Cinema
Movie • 2021
Himself
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Movie • 2012
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Movie • 1987
Interviewer
Fire Under Your Ass
Movie • 1990
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
Movie • 1972
September September
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Movie • 2022
Self
Positive
Movie • 1990
Self
Silence = Death
Movie • 1990
Self
Underground and Emigrants
Movie • 1976
Self
Tally Brown, New York
Movie • 1979
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Movie • 2022
Survival in New York
Movie • 1989
Two Mothers
Movie • 2007
The Bite
Movie • 1984
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Movie • 1975
Matrose
Desire Will Set You Free
Movie • 2015
Ezra's Agent
My Wonderful West Berlin
Movie • 2017
Rosakinder
Movie • 2012
Self
I Feel Like Disco
Movie • 2013
Rosa von Praunheim
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Movie • 1996
Birth of a Nation
Movie • 1997
Self
Rent Boys
Movie • 2011
Self
Anita – Dances of Vice
Movie • 1988
Von Rosa von Praunheim
Movie • 1968
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
Movie • 2009
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Movie • 2014
Self
Friendship of Men
Movie • 2018
Himself
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Movie • 2011
Self
King of Comics
Movie • 2012
Darkroom
Movie • 2019
Carla
Movie • 1968
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
Movie • 2020
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Movie • 2024
Self
Praunheim Memoires
Movie • 2015
Self
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
Movie • 2004
Self
Rosa <3
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
A Virus Knows No Morals
Movie • 1986
Rüdiger Kackinski
Transexual Menace
Movie • 1996
Self - Interviewer
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
Movie • 1972
Mario Wirz
Movie • 2014
Self
Meine Väter
Movie • 2021
Self
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Movie • 2025
Self
Monolog eines Stars
Movie • 1974
Paris-Berlin, le débat
TV • 2008
Self
DAS!
TV • 1991
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
TV • 2006
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
ANNE WILL
TV • 2007
Je später der Abend
TV • 1973
Self
Through the Night with...
TV • 2002
Self
Legendär!
TV • 2021
Self
Bio’s Bahnhof
TV • 1978
Self
Grimme Award
TV • 1964
Self
Chez Krömer
TV • 2019
Self
Zimmer frei!
TV • 1996
Self
3 nach 9
TV • 1974
Self
Markus Lanz
TV • 2008
Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
TV • 2003
Self
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self
DAS!
TV • 1991
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Im Palais
TV • 2004
Self
Nachtstudio
TV • 1997
Self
live - die ZDF-talkshow
TV • 1987
Self
ZIBB
TV • 2003
Self
Abendshow
TV • 2017
Self
Tietjen und Bommes
TV • 1997
Self
0511 TV Lokal
TV • 2007
Self
Pantoffelkino
TV • 2013
Self - Guest
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
TV • 2026
Self