Rosa von Praunheim
Born: 1942-11-25 in Riga, Latvia
Died: 2025-12-17
Known For: Directing
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
2026
- Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm as Self
2025
- Satanic Sow ... (Director)
- Last Exit Gran Canaria as Self
- Rosa <3 as Self (archive footage)
2024
- Thirty Years with the Whip ... (Director)
- Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal as Self
2022
2021
- Legendär! as Self
- Isolation as Self
- Queer Cinema as Himself
- Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn ... (Director)
- Meine Väter as Self
2020
- Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
- Operndiven - Operntunten ... (Director)
2019
- Chez Krömer as Self
- Darkroom
2018
- Friendship of Men as Himself
2017
- Abendshow as Self
- Survival in Berlin-Neukölln ... (Director)
- My Wonderful West Berlin
- ACT! Wer bin ich? ... (Director)
2015
- Desire Will Set You Free as Ezra's Agent
- Tough Love ... (Director)
- Praunheim Memoires as Self
- Vater as Man in Berlin
2014
- How I Learned to Love the Numbers as Self
- Auf der Suche nach Heilern ... (Writer)
- Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart ... (Director)
- Mario Wirz as Self
- Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte ... (Director)
2013
- Pantoffelkino as Self - Guest
- I Feel Like Disco as Rosa von Praunheim
2012
- Rosakinder as Self
- King of Comics
- Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
- Germans Taste the Best ... (Director)
2011
- Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter as Self
- Rent Boys as Self
2010
- 20 × Brandenburg ... (Director)
- New York Memories ... (Director)
2009
- 24 Hours Berlin ... (Director)
- On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
- History of Hell ... (Director)
2008
- Markus Lanz as Self
- Paris-Berlin, le débat as Self
- Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? ... (Director)
- Der Rosa Riese ... (Director)
- Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians ... (Director)
2007
- ANNE WILL
- Here’s Looking at You, Boy as Self
- 0511 TV Lokal as Self
- Two Mothers
- Six Dead Students ... (Director)
- Mit Olga auf der Wolga ... (Director)
2006
- Das perfekte Promi-Dinner as Self
2005
- Who is Helene Schwarz? ... (Writer)
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis as Self
- Your Heart in My Head ... (Director)
- Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker ... (Director)
- Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze ... (Director)
- Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga ... (Writer)
2004
- Im Palais as Self
- Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel as Self
2003
- ZIBB as Self
- Menschen bei Maischberger as Self
- Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel ... (Director)
- Charlotte in Sweden as Self
2002
- Through the Night with... as Self
- Queens Don’t Cry ... (Screenplay)
- Pfui, Rosa! as Self
- Cows Knocked Up by Fog ... (Director)
2000
- The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld ... (Director)
- Fassbinder's Women ... (Director)
- Wonderful Wrodow ... (Director)
1998
- Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement ... (Director)
1997
- Tietjen und Bommes as Self
- Nachtstudio as Self
- Birth of a Nation as Self
1996
- Zimmer frei! as Self
- Transexual Menace as Self - Interviewer
- I Was a Jewish Sex Worker as Self
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity ... (Director)
1994
- Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff ... (Director)
1992
- I Am My Own Woman ... (Screenplay)
1991
- DAS!
- Ein Mann namens Pis ... (Producer)
- Stolz und schwul ... (Director)
1990
- Positive as Self
- Life Is Like a Cucumber ... (Director)
- Silence = Death as Self
- Die Weisheit ... (Director)
- Fire Under Your Ass
1989
1987
- live - die ZDF-talkshow as Self
- Dolly, Lotte and Maria as Interviewer
1986
- A Virus Knows No Morals as Rüdiger Kackinski
- September September as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Horror Vacui ... (Director)
- The Bite
1983
- City of Lost Souls ... (Director)
- Red Love ... (Writer)
1981
- Our Corpses Are Still Alive ... (Director)
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- Tally Brown, New York
- Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot ... (Camera Operator)
- Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts ... (Editor)
- Der 24. Stock ... (Director)
1978
- Bio’s Bahnhof as Self
1977
- George and Mike Kuchar as Self
- Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen ... (Director)
1976
- Kölner Treff as Self
- Underground and Emigrants as Self
- Marianne Rosenberg ... (Director)
- I’m an Antistar ... (Director)
1975
- The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors as Matrose
- Berliner Bettwurst ... (Writer)
1974
- 3 nach 9 as Self
- Axel von Auersperg ... (Director)
- Rosa von Praunheim zeigt ... (Director)
- Monolog eines Stars
1973
- Je später der Abend as Self
1972
1971
- Die Bettwurst ... (Director)
- It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives ... (Director)
- Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim ... (Director)
- Homosexuelle in New York ... (Director)
1969
- Neurasia ... (Assistant Director)
- Beckett in Berlin ... (Director)
- Sisters of Revolution ... (Director)
- Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil ... (Director)
1968
- (A)lter (A)ction ... (Assistant Director)
- Carla
- Von Rosa von Praunheim
- Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil ... (Director)
1967
- Silvo as Self
1964
- Grimme Award as Self