Directing · b. 1942 · Riga, Latvia

Rosa von Praunheim

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 concentration camps.

Directed
Satanic Sow 2025 Thirty Years with the Whip 2024 Rex Gildo: The Last Dance 2022 Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn 2021 Operndiven - Operntunten 2020 Darkroom 2019 Friendship of Men 2018 Survival in Berlin-Neukölln 2017 ACT! Wer bin ich? 2017 Tough Love 2015 Praunheim Memoires 2015 Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart 2014 Mario Wirz 2014 Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte 2014 Auf der Suche nach Heilern 2014 King of Comics 2012 Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim 2012 Germans Taste the Best 2012 Rent Boys 2011 New York Memories 2010 20 × Brandenburg 2010 History of Hell 2009 24 Hours Berlin 2009 Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? 2008 Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians 2008 Der Rosa Riese 2008 Six Dead Students 2007 Two Mothers 2007 Mit Olga auf der Wolga 2007 Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis 2005 Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze 2005 Your Heart in My Head 2005 Who is Helene Schwarz? 2005 Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker 2005 Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga 2005 Charlotte in Sweden 2003 Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel 2003 Pfui, Rosa! 2002 Cows Knocked Up by Fog 2002 Queens Don’t Cry 2002 The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld 2000 Fassbinder's Women 2000 Wonderful Wrodow 2000 Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement 1998 Transexual Menace 1996 Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity 1995 Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff 1994 I Am My Own Woman 1992 Ein Mann namens Pis 1991 Stolz und schwul 1991 Silence = Death 1990 Life Is Like a Cucumber 1990 Positive 1990 Fire Under Your Ass 1990 Die Weisheit 1990 Survival in New York 1989 Anita – Dances of Vice 1988 Dolly, Lotte and Maria 1987 A Virus Knows No Morals 1986 Horror Vacui 1984 City of Lost Souls 1983 Red Love 1983 Our Corpses Are Still Alive 1981 Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts 1979 Tally Brown, New York 1979 Der 24. Stock 1979 Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot 1979 George and Mike Kuchar 1977 Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen 1977 Underground and Emigrants 1976 Marianne Rosenberg 1976 I’m an Antistar 1976 Berliner Bettwurst 1975 Rosa von Praunheim zeigt 1974 Axel von Auersperg 1974 Monolog eines Stars 1974 Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk 1972 Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus 1972 Passions 1972 Die Bettwurst 1971 Homosexuelle in New York 1971 It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives 1971 Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim 1971 Beckett in Berlin 1969 Sisters of Revolution 1969 Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil 1969 Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil 1968 Von Rosa von Praunheim 1968
Cinematography
Tally Brown, New York 1979 Underground and Emigrants 1976 Berliner Bettwurst 1975 Monolog eines Stars 1974 Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk 1972 Die Bettwurst 1971 It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives 1971
Acting
Rosa <3 Self (archive footage) 2025 Last Exit Gran Canaria Self 2025 Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal Self 2024 Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors Self 2022 Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 2022 Isolation Self 2021 Queer Cinema Himself 2021 Meine Väter Self 2021 Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“ 2020 My Wonderful West Berlin 2017 Vater Man in Berlin 2015 Desire Will Set You Free Ezra's Agent 2015 How I Learned to Love the Numbers Self 2014 I Feel Like Disco Rosa von Praunheim 2013 Rosakinder Self 2012 Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter Self 2011 On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema 2009 Here’s Looking at You, Boy Self 2007 Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel Self 2004 Birth of a Nation Self 1997 I Was a Jewish Sex Worker 1996 September September Self (archive footage) 1986 The Bite 1984 The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors Matrose 1975 Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972 1972 Carla 1968 Silvo Self 1967
Other Credits
Neurasia Assistant Director 1969 (A)lter (A)ction Assistant Director 1968
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