Rosa von Praunheim
Biography
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is 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.
Acting (43 movies)
Isolation
2021
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Silvo
1967
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
Queer Cinema
2021
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
September September
1986
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Positive
1990
Silence = Death
1990
Underground and Emigrants
1976
Tally Brown, New York
1979
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Survival in New York
1989
Two Mothers
2007
The Bite
1984
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Rosakinder
2012
I Feel Like Disco
2013
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
Birth of a Nation
1997
Rent Boys
2011
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
Friendship of Men
2018
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
King of Comics
2012
Darkroom
2019
Carla
1968
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Rosa <3
2025
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Transexual Menace
1996
Mario Wirz
2014
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
Directing (85 movies)
Die Bettwurst
1971
Queens Don’t Cry
2002
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008
I Am My Own Woman
1992
Mario Wirz
2014
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000
Rent Boys
2011
Six Dead Students
2007
King of Comics
2012
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
1995
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
City of Lost Souls
1983
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
History of Hell
2009
Red Love
1983
Silence = Death
1990
New York Memories
2010
Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Horror Vacui
1984
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
2005
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008
Positive
1990
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Tough Love
2015
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
1972
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Die Weisheit
1990
Beckett in Berlin
1969
Underground and Emigrants
1976
Tally Brown, New York
1979
Homosexuelle in New York
1971
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
1974
Marianne Rosenberg
1976
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
1977
Charlotte in Sweden
2003
Passions
1972
Two Mothers
2007
Survival in New York
1989
Berliner Bettwurst
1975
Fassbinder's Women
2000
Ein Mann namens Pis
1991
Wonderful Wrodow
2000
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017
Transexual Menace
1996
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1998
Your Heart in My Head
2005
Praunheim Memoires
2015
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
Der Rosa Riese
2008
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
2007
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
2003
Der 24. Stock
1979
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979
Friendship of Men
2018
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
2005
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
2005
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968
Darkroom
2019
Sisters of Revolution
1969
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
24 Hours Berlin
2009
20 × Brandenburg
2010
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020
Stolz und schwul
1991
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971
I’m an Antistar
1976
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1981
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024
Satanic Sow
2025
Axel von Auersperg
1974
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
1971