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.
Filmography (80 titles)
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self · 2026
MovieLast Exit Gran Canaria
Self · 2025
MovieRosa <3
Self (archive footage) · 2025
8.8MovieHape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self · 2024
5.0MovieGlückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
MovieCome with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self · 2022
4.1MovieRex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler · 2022
MovieIsolation
Self · 2021
ShowLegendär!
Self · 2021
MovieQueer Cinema
Himself · 2021
MovieMeine Väter
Self · 2021
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
7.3ShowChez Krömer
Self · 2019
5.4MovieDarkroom
2019
4.3MovieFriendship of Men
Himself · 2018
Abendshow
Self · 2017
6.3MovieMy Wonderful West Berlin
2017
4.5MovieDesire Will Set You Free
Ezra's Agent · 2015
MoviePraunheim Memoires
Self · 2015
Vater
Man in Berlin · 2015
9.0MovieHow I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self · 2014
MovieMario Wirz
Self · 2014
5.5MovieI Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim · 2013
Pantoffelkino
Self - Guest · 2013
MovieRosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
MovieI am a Poem
Self · 2012
5.2MovieRosakinder
Self · 2012
4.5MovieKing of Comics
2012
5.3MovieRent Boys
Self · 2011
5.5MovieMondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self · 2011