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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

56 acting

206 crew

Popularity

0.7

Meine Väter
Meine Väter
2021 • as Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
★ 5.9
The Bite
★ 5.8
movie
Pfui, Rosa!
2002 • as Self
★ 8.5
Friendship of Men
Friendship of Men
2018 • as Himself
★ 4.3
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
★ 3.7
Rosa <3
Rosa <3
2025 • as Self (archive footage)
Carla
Carla
1968
movie
Would You Care for Me?
• as Rosa von Praunheim
I Feel Like Disco
I Feel Like Disco
2013 • as Rosa von Praunheim
★ 5.5
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
★ 5.2
Silvo
Silvo
1967 • as Self
Transexual Menace
Transexual Menace
1996 • as Self - Interviewer
★ 5.0
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022 • as Erzähler
★ 4.1
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
1997 • as Self
★ 7.0
Desire Will Set You Free
Desire Will Set You Free
2015 • as Ezra's Agent
★ 4.3
I am a Poem
I am a Poem
2012 • as Self
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
★ 9.0
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
★ 8.8
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
★ 5.9
Rent Boys
Rent Boys
2011 • as Self
★ 5.4
King of Comics
★ 4.5
movie
★ 9.0
Positive
Positive
1990 • as Self
★ 4.2
Mario Wirz
Mario Wirz
2014 • as Self
Fire Under Your Ass
★ 10.0
A Virus Knows No Morals
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986 • as Rüdiger Kackinski
★ 4.8
Isolation
Isolation
2021 • as Self
Silence = Death
Silence = Death
1990 • as Self
★ 5.1
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025 • as Self
Darkroom
Darkroom
2019 • as Schlafender in S-Bahn
★ 5.4
movie
★ 10.0
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987 • as Interviewer
★ 9.0
Underground and Emigrants
★ 7.0
Praunheim Memoires
Praunheim Memoires
2015 • as Self
Rosakinder
Rosakinder
2012 • as Self
★ 5.2
movie
George and Mike Kuchar
1977 • as Self
★ 10.0
September September
September September
1986 • as Self (archive footage)
movie
Vater
2015 • as Man in Berlin
Queer Cinema
Queer Cinema
2021 • as Himself
movie
Charlotte in Sweden
2003 • as Self
★ 8.0