Rosa von Praunheim
Known for: Directing
Born: November 25, 1942
Died: December 17, 2025
Place of birth: Riga, Latvia
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.
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Filmography
119 movies · 26 TV shows, newest first
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Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
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Satanic Sow
2025
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Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
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Rosa <3
2025
8.8
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
6.4
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024
5.0
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
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Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
4.1
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
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Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
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Isolation
2021
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Legendär!
2021
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Queer Cinema
2021
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Meine Väter
2021NR
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
8.0
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020
7.3
Chez Krömer
2019
5.4
Darkroom
2019
4.3
Friendship of Men
2018
2.0
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017NR
Abendshow
2017
8.0
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
6.3
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
4.5
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
5.9
Tough Love
2015
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Praunheim Memoires
2015NR
Vater
2015
9.0
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014NR
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014
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Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
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Mario Wirz
2014
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Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
5.5
I Feel Like Disco
2013NR
Pantoffelkino
2013
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
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I am a Poem
2012
5.2
Rosakinder
2012NR
Germans Taste the Best
2012
4.5
King of Comics
2012
5.3
Rent Boys
2011
5.5
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
5.0
20 × Brandenburg
2010
5.2
New York Memories
20101.0
History of Hell
2009
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On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
9.0
24 Hours Berlin
2009
5.1
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008
5.5
Markus Lanz
2008
4.4
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008NR
Paris-Berlin, le débat
2008NR
Der Rosa Riese
2008NR
Six Dead Students
2007
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Two Mothers
2007NR
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
2007
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ANNE WILL
2007NR
0511 TV Lokal
2007
5.2
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
6.0
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
2006
4.6
Your Heart in My Head
2005
5.9
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
20057.0
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005NR
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
2005NR
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
2005
8.0
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
200510.0
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004NR
Im Palais
20047.0
ZIBB
20037.3
Menschen bei Maischberger
20038.0
Charlotte in Sweden
2003NR
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
20038.5
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
8.0
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002
7.9
Through the Night with...
2002
4.5
Queens Don’t Cry
2002
5.3
Fassbinder's Women
20009.0
Wonderful Wrodow
2000
5.5
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000
3.0
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1998NR
Nachtstudio
1997
7.0
Birth of a Nation
19979.0
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
3.7
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
7.0
Zimmer frei!
1996
5.0
Transexual Menace
1996
7.3
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
5.3
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
19959.0
Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff
1994
4.6
I Am My Own Woman
19928.0
Proud and Gay
1991NR
Ein Mann namens Pis
1991
4.7
DAS!
1991
6.7
Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990
10.0
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
4.2
Positive
1990
5.1
Silence = Death
1990NR
Die Weisheit
1990
8.3
Survival in New York
1989
4.9
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988NR
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
9.0
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
4.8
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
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September September
1986
4.6
Horror Vacui
1984
5.8
The Bite
1984
7.0
Red Love
1983
5.3
City of Lost Souls
1983
10.0
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1981
7.0
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
19797.0
Der 24. Stock
1979
7.5
Tally Brown, New York
1979
4.0
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979
6.6
NDR Talk Show
19799.0
Bio’s Bahnhof
197810.0
George and Mike Kuchar
19777.0
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
1977
10.0
I’m an Antistar
1976
7.0
Underground and Emigrants
1976
6.8
Kölner Treff
1976
9.0
Marianne Rosenberg
1976
6.5
Berliner Bettwurst
1975
5.9
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
19757.2
3 nach 9
197410.0
Axel von Auersperg
19749.0
Monolog eines Stars
19747.0
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
19747.0
Je später der Abend
197310.0
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
197210.0
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
197210.0
Passions
1972NR
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
5.4
Die Bettwurst
1971
5.3
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
197110.0
Homosexuelle in New York
19717.0
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
19717.0
Sisters of Revolution
19695.7
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969
6.9
Neurasia
1969
7.0
Beckett in Berlin
1969
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Carla
19688.0
(A)lter (A)ction
19687.0
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968
5.8
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
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Silvo
1967NR
Grimme Award
1964NR
Sex und Tod
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