
Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Born 1942-11-25 · Riga, Latvia · Died 2025-12-17
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.
Acting
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self

Last Exit Gran Canaria
Self

Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler

Isolation
Self

Legendär!
Self

Queer Cinema
Himself

Meine Väter
Self
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“

Chez Krömer
Self

Darkroom

Friendship of Men
Himself
Abendshow
Self

My Wonderful West Berlin

Desire Will Set You Free
Ezra's Agent

Praunheim Memoires
Self
Vater
Man in Berlin

How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self

Mario Wirz
Self

I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
Pantoffelkino
Self - Guest

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

Rosakinder
Self

King of Comics

Rent Boys
Self

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self

On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
Crew

Satanic Sow
Director

Satanic Sow
Writer

Satanic Sow
Editor

Thirty Years with the Whip
Director

Thirty Years with the Whip
Author

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Writer

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Director

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Producer

Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Director

Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Producer

Operndiven - Operntunten
Director

Darkroom
Director

Darkroom
Screenplay

Darkroom
Producer

Friendship of Men
Director

Friendship of Men
Writer

Friendship of Men
Producer

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Director

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Writer

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Editor