Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 25, 1942
Died
Dec 17, 2025
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvia
Credits
145 titles
Rosa von Praunheim
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.
Known For
Filmography
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self
Satanic Sow
Director
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Self
Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
Thirty Years with the Whip
Director
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Producer
Isolation
Self
Legendär!
Self
Queer Cinema
Himself
Meine Väter
Self
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director
Chez Krömer
Self
Darkroom
Friendship of Men
Himself
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Director
Abendshow
Self
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Director
My Wonderful West Berlin
Desire Will Set You Free
Ezra's Agent
Tough Love
Director
Praunheim Memoires
Self
Vater
Man in Berlin
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Writer
Mario Wirz
Self
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
Director
I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
Pantoffelkino
Self - Guest
I am a Poem
Self
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosakinder
Self
Germans Taste the Best
Director
King of Comics
Rent Boys
Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
20 × Brandenburg
Director
New York Memories
Director
History of Hell
Director
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
24 Hours Berlin
Director
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Director
Markus Lanz
Self
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Director
Paris-Berlin, le débat
Self