Rosa von Praunheim
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.
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Movies (122)
Satanic Sow
2025 · Director, Writer, Editor
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025 · Self
Rosa <3
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024 · Self
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024 · Director, Author
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022 · Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022 · Erzähler, Writer, Director, Producer
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021 · Producer, Director
Isolation
2021 · Self
Queer Cinema
2021 · Himself
Meine Väter
2021 · Self
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020 · Director
Darkroom
2019 · Schlafender in S-Bahn, Director, Producer, Screenplay
Friendship of Men
2018 · Himself, Director, Writer, Producer
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017 · Director, Writer, Editor
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017 · Director
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Desire Will Set You Free
2015 · Ezra's Agent
Tough Love
2015 · Director, Producer, Writer
Praunheim Memoires
2015 · Self, Producer, Writer, Director
Vater
2015 · Man in Berlin
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014 · Self
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014 · Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014 · Writer, Director
Mario Wirz
2014 · Self, Director
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014 · Director
I Feel Like Disco
2013 · Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012 · Editor, Writer, Producer, Director
I am a Poem
2012 · Self, Producer, Editor
Axel und Peter - Titten für Arsch
2012 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Rosakinder
2012 · Self
Germans Taste the Best
2012 · Director
King of Comics
2012 · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Rent Boys
2011 · Self, Director, Writer, Producer
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011 · Self
20 × Brandenburg
2010 · Director
New York Memories
2010 · Director, Writer
History of Hell
2009 · Director
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
24 Hours Berlin
2009 · Director
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008 · Director
Der Rosa Riese
2008 · Director
Six Dead Students
2007 · Director, Screenplay
Two Mothers
2007 · Writer, Director
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
2007 · Director
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 · Self
Your Heart in My Head
2005 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005 · Self, Director, Writer, Producer
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005 · Writer, Director
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
2005 · Director, Writer
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
2005 · Director, Writer
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
2005 · Director, Writer
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004 · Self
Charlotte in Sweden
2003 · Self, Director
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
2003 · Director
Pfui, Rosa!
2002 · Self, Director
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002 · Screenplay, Director
Queens Don’t Cry
2002 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Fassbinder's Women
2000 · Director
Wonderful Wrodow
2000 · Director
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000 · Director, Producer
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1998 · Director
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996 · Self
Transexual Menace
1996 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
1995 · Director, Writer, Producer
Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff
1994 · Director, Writer
I Am My Own Woman
1992 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
Proud and Gay
1991 · Director
Ein Mann namens Pis
1991 · Producer, Director
Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990 · Director, Writer, Producer
Fire Under Your Ass
1990 · Director, Writer, Producer
Positive
1990 · Self, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Silence = Death
1990 · Self, Director, Writer, Editor
What Is the Relationship Between Rosa von Praunheim and the Male Strippers in San Francisco?
1990 · Self
Die Weisheit
1990 · Director
Survival in New York
1989 · Director, Writer
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987 · Interviewer, Producer, Director, Writer
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986 · Rüdiger Kackinski, Producer, Writer, Director
September September
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Horror Vacui
1984 · Director, Writer
The Bite
1984
Red Love
1983 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
City of Lost Souls
1983 · Director, Writer
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1981 · Director
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979 · Camera Operator, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Der 24. Stock
1979 · Director
Tally Brown, New York
1979 · Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Director
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979 · Editor, Producer, Cinematography, Writer, Director
George and Mike Kuchar
1977 · Self, Director
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
1977 · Director
I’m an Antistar
1976 · Director
Underground and Emigrants
1976 · Self, Director of Photography, Producer, Writer, Director
Marianne Rosenberg
1976 · Director
Berliner Bettwurst
1975 · Producer, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975 · Matrose
Axel von Auersperg
1974 · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Monolog eines Stars
1974 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
1974 · Director
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
1972 · Producer, Editor, Director, Writer
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972 · Director of Photography, Writer, Director
Passions
1972 · Director
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
The Bed Sausage
1971 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer, Art Direction, Unit Manager
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971 · Director of Photography, Writer, Director
Homosexuelle in New York
1971 · Director
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
1971 · Director, Writer
Sisters of Revolution
1969 · Director
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969 · Director
Neurasia
1969 · Assistant Director
Beckett in Berlin
1969 · Director
Carla
1968
(A)lter (A)ction
1968 · Assistant Director
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968 · Director
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968 · Director
Silvo
1967 · Self
Would You Care for Me?
· Rosa von Praunheim
Sex und Tod
· Writer, Director
TV shows (26)
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026 · Self
Legendär!
2021 · Self
Chez Krömer
2019 · Self
Abendshow
2017 · Self
Pantoffelkino
2013 · Self - Guest
Markus Lanz
2008 · Self
Paris-Berlin, le débat
2008 · Self
ANNE WILL
2007
0511 TV Lokal
2007 · Self
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
2006 · Self
Im Palais
2004 · Self
ZIBB
2003 · Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003 · Self
Through the Night with...
2002 · Self
Nachtstudio
1997 · Self
Tietjen und Bommes
1997 · Self
Zimmer frei!
1996 · Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995 · Self
DAS!
1991 · Self
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987 · Self
NDR Talk Show
1979 · Self
Bio’s Bahnhof
1978 · Self
Kölner Treff
1976 · Self
3 nach 9
1974 · Self
Je später der Abend
1973 · Self
Grimme Award
1964 · Self