Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Born: 1942-11-25 · Riga, Latvia
Died: 2025-12-17
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
🎬 Movies (30)
Rosa <3
2025
Self (archive footage)
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
Self
Satanic Sow
2025
Director
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
Self
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024
Director
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Director
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Self
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Isolation
2021
Self
Queer Cinema
2021
Himself
Meine Väter
2021
Self
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
Director
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020
Director
Darkroom
2019
Director
Friendship of Men
2018
Director
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017
Director
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
Director
Vater
2015
Man in Berlin
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
Ezra's Agent
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Director
Tough Love
2015
Director
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
Self
Mario Wirz
2014
Director
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
Director
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014
Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
Director
I Feel Like Disco
2013
Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Director
📺 TV Shows (26)
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
Self
Legendär!
2021
Self
Chez Krömer
2019
Self
Abendshow
2017
Self
Pantoffelkino
2013
Self - Guest
Paris-Berlin, le débat
2008
Self
Markus Lanz
2008
Self
ANNE WILL
2007
0511 TV Lokal
2007
Self
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
2006
Self
Im Palais
2004
Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
Self
ZIBB
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