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Rosa von Praunheim

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

Born

Nov 25, 1942

Riga, Latvia

Died

Dec 17, 2025

Known For

Directing

Movies

53 acting

200 crew

Popularity

0.6

movie
Silence = Death
Silence = Death
1990 • as Self
★ 5.1
Rosakinder
Rosakinder
2012 • as Self
★ 5.2
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014 • as Self
★ 9.0
I Feel Like Disco
I Feel Like Disco
2013 • as Rosa von Praunheim
★ 5.5
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022 • as Erzähler
★ 4.1
Desire Will Set You Free
Desire Will Set You Free
2015 • as Ezra's Agent
★ 4.5
Positive
Positive
1990 • as Self
★ 4.2
movie
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
★ 10.0
Transexual Menace
Transexual Menace
1996 • as Self - Interviewer
★ 5.0
Friendship of Men
Friendship of Men
2018 • as Himself
★ 4.3
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022 • as Self
movie
Vater
2015 • as Man in Berlin
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011 • as Self
★ 5.5
Underground and Emigrants
Underground and Emigrants
1976 • as Self
★ 7.0
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024 • as Self
★ 8.8
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
A Virus Knows No Morals
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986 • as Rüdiger Kackinski
★ 4.8
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005 • as Self
★ 6.1
movie
Pfui, Rosa!
2002 • as Self
★ 9.0
Anita – Dances of Vice
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
★ 4.9
Darkroom
Darkroom
2019
★ 5.4
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Two Mothers
Two Mothers
2007
Rent Boys
Rent Boys
2011 • as Self
★ 5.3
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 • as Self
★ 4.8
Isolation
Isolation
2021 • as Self
Tally Brown, New York
Tally Brown, New York
1979
★ 7.5
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
1997 • as Self
★ 7.0
movie
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004 • as Self
★ 10.0
Praunheim Memoires
Praunheim Memoires
2015 • as Self
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025 • as Self
Meine Väter
Meine Väter
2021 • as Self
Fire Under Your Ass
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
★ 10.0
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975 • as Matrose
★ 5.9
King of Comics
King of Comics
2012
★ 4.5
Queer Cinema
Queer Cinema
2021 • as Himself
Carla
Carla
1968
Silvo
Silvo
1967 • as Self
Mario Wirz
Mario Wirz
2014 • as Self
Survival in New York
Survival in New York
1989
★ 8.0
My Wonderful West Berlin
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
★ 6.3
September September
September September
1986 • as Self (archive footage)
The Bite
The Bite
1984
★ 5.8
movie
Monolog eines Stars
1974
★ 9.0
movie
George and Mike Kuchar
1977 • as Self
★ 10.0
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
★ 5.0
movie
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987 • as Interviewer
★ 9.0
Von Rosa von Praunheim
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
★ 5.8
movie
Charlotte in Sweden
2003 • as Self
★ 8.0
Rosa <3
Rosa <3
2025 • as Self (archive footage)
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996 • as Self
★ 3.7
movie
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972