Rosa von Praunheim

Personal Info

Known For:
Directing

Birthday:
November 25, 1942

Place of Birth:
Riga, Latvia

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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.

Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Rosa <3 Himself (archive footage)
2024 Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal Self
2022 Rex Gildo: The Last Dance Erzähler
2022 Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors Self
2022 Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2021 Isolation Self
2021 Queer Cinema Himself
2020 Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2019 Darkroom
2018 Friendship of Men Himself
2017 My Wonderful West Berlin
2015 Vater Man in Berlin
2015 Desire Will Set You Free
2015 Praunheim Memoires Self
2014 How I Learned to Love the Numbers Self
2013 I Feel Like Disco Rosa von Praunheim
2012 Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012 Rosakinder Self
2012 King of Comics
2011 Rent Boys Self
2011 Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter Self
2009 On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2007 Here’s Looking at You, Boy Self
2007 Two Mothers
2005 Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis Self
2004 Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel Self
2003 Charlotte in Sweden Self
2002 Pfui, Rosa! Self
1997 Birth of a Nation Self
1996 I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996 Transexual Menace Self - Interviewer
1990 Fire Under Your Ass
1990 Positive Self
1990 Silence = Death Self
1989 Survival in New York
1988 Anita – Dances of Vice
1987 Dolly, Lotte and Maria Interviewer
1986 September September (archive footage)
1986 A Virus Knows No Morals Rüdiger Kackinski
1984 The Bite
1979 Tally Brown, New York
1977 George and Mike Kuchar Self
1976 Underground and Emigrants Self
1975 The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors Matrose
1972 Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1968 Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968 Carla
1967 Silvo Self
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