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 concentration camps.
89 directing credits · 79 acting credits
Directing · 89
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971
Die Bettwurst
1971
Positive
1990
Friendship of Men
2018
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
1995
Rent Boys
2011
Darkroom
2019
Fassbinder's Women
2000
Silence = Death
1990
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000
Tally Brown, New York
1979
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979
Underground and Emigrants
1976
Tough Love
2015
City of Lost Souls
1983
24 Hours Berlin
2009
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017
20 × Brandenburg
2010
I Am My Own Woman
1992
Berliner Bettwurst
1975
Six Dead Students
2007
Der Rosa Riese
2008
Passions
1972
Transexual Menace
1996
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
1971
Horror Vacui
1984
Queens Don’t Cry
2002
Sisters of Revolution
1969
History of Hell
2009
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008
Satanic Sow
2025
Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990
Two Mothers
2007
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
Stolz und schwul
1991
King of Comics
2012
Your Heart in My Head
2005
Beckett in Berlin
1969
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Mario Wirz
2014
Homosexuelle in New York
1971
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1981
New York Memories
2010
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
2007
Der 24. Stock
1979
Red Love
1983
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
2003
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
2005
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Marianne Rosenberg
1976
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
1977
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020
Sex und Tod
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I’m an Antistar
1976
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
1972
Wonderful Wrodow
2000
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
2005
Axel von Auersperg
1974
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1998
Die Weisheit
1990
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
1974
Charlotte in Sweden
2003
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff
1994
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014
Survival in New York
1989
Ein Mann namens Pis
1991
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969
Monolog eines Stars
1974
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
2005
Germans Taste the Best
2012
Acting · 79
ZIBB
2003
DAS!
1991
Markus Lanz
2008
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
NDR Talk Show
1979
Kölner Treff
1976
Zimmer frei!
1996
3 nach 9
1974
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Grimme Award
1964
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
ANNE WILL
2007
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
2006
Through the Night with...
2002
Nachtstudio
1997
Abendshow
2017
Im Palais
2004
Bio’s Bahnhof
1978
Je später der Abend
1973
Chez Krömer
2019
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
Legendär!
2021
Pantoffelkino
2013
Paris-Berlin, le débat
2008
0511 TV Lokal
2007
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Positive
1990
Friendship of Men
2018
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
Rent Boys
2011
Isolation
2021
Rosakinder
2012
Darkroom
2019
Silence = Death
1990
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Birth of a Nation
1997
Tally Brown, New York
1979
Underground and Emigrants
1976
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rosa <3
2025
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Transexual Menace
1996
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
I Feel Like Disco
2013
Two Mothers
2007
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Silvo
1967
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Queer Cinema
2021
September September
1986
Carla
1968
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004
King of Comics
2012
The Bite
1984
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Mario Wirz
2014
Meine Väter
2021
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Charlotte in Sweden
2003
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
Vater
2015
Survival in New York
1989
Monolog eines Stars
1974