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.
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Filmography
all 123
Movies 103
Director 67
self 36
TV Shows 20
Producer 3
Self
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 (2022)
Movie
Rosa von Praunheim
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)
Movie
Director
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022)
Movie
Director / Producer
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn (2021)
Movie
Self
Isolation (2021)
Movie
Self
Legendär! (2021)
TV
Himself
Queer Cinema (2021)
Movie
Smart Berlin: Der "Stutti" (2020)
Movie
Director
Operndiven - Operntunten (2020)
Movie
Self
Chez Krömer (2019)
TV
Director
Darkroom (2019)
Movie
Director
Friendship of Men (2018)
Movie
Director
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln (2017)
Movie
Director
ACT! Wer bin ich? (2017)
Movie
My Wonderful West Berlin (2017)
Movie
Desire Will Set You Free (2015)
Movie
Director
Tough Love (2015)
Movie
Man in Berlin
Vater (2015)
Movie
Producer
How I Learned to Love the Numbers (2014)
Movie
Director
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte (2014)
Movie
Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern (2014)
Movie
Director
Praunheim Memoires (2014)
Movie
Director
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart (2014)
Movie
Director
Mario Wirz (2014)
Movie
Rosa von Praunheim
I Feel Like Disco (2013)
Movie
Director
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim (2012)
Movie
Self
Rosakinder (2012)
Movie
Director
King of Comics (2012)
Movie
Director
Rent Boys (2011)
Movie
6
Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter (2011)
Movie
Director
20 × Brandenburg (2010)
Movie
Director
New York Memories (2010)
Movie
Director
History of Hell (2009)
Movie
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema (2009)
Movie
Director
24 Hours Berlin (2009)
Movie
Self
Markus Lanz (2008)
TV
Director
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians (2008)
Movie
Self
Paris-Berlin, le débat (2008)
TV
Director
Rosa Riese (2008)
Movie
Director
Six Dead Students (2007)
Movie
Self
Two Mothers (2007)
Movie
Director
Mit Olga auf der Wolga (2007)
Movie
ANNE WILL (2007)
TV
Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy (2007)
Movie
Self
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner (2006)
TV
Director
Your Heart in My Head (2005)
Movie
Director
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005)
Movie
Director
Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)
Movie
Director / Writer
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga (2005)
Movie
Director / Writer
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker (2005)
Movie
Director
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze (2005)
Movie
Self
Im Palais (2004)
TV
Self
Menschen bei Maischberger (2003)
TV
Director
Ratten 07 - Im Berliner Dschungel (2003)
Movie
Self
Charlotte in Sweden (2003)
Movie
Self
Pfui, Rosa! (2002)
Movie
Director
Cows Knocked Up by Fog (2002)
Movie
Self
Through the Night with... (2002)
TV
Director
Queens Don’t Cry (2002)
Movie
Director
Fassbinder’s Women (2000)
Movie
Director
Wonderful Wrodow (2000)
Movie
Director
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? (2000)
Movie
Director
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (2000)
Movie
Director
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement (1998)
Movie
Self
Nachtstudio (1997)
TV
Self
Birth of a Nation (1997)
Movie
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker (1996)
Movie
Self
Zimmer frei! (1996)
TV
Director
Transexual Menace (1996)
Movie
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995)
TV
Director
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity (1995)
Movie
Director
I Am My Own Woman (1992)
Movie
Self
Stolz und schwul (1991)
Movie
Director / Producer
Ein Mann namens Pis (1991)
Movie
Self
DAS! (1991)
TV
Actor
Life Is Like a Cucumber (1990)
Movie
Actor
Fire Under Your Ass (1990)
Movie
Director
Positive (1990)
Movie
Director
Silence = Death (1990)
Movie
Self
Die Weisheit (1990)
Movie
Self
Survival in New York (1989)
Movie
Director
Anita – Dances of Vice (1988)
Movie
Self
live - die ZDF-talkshow (1987)
TV
Self
Dolly, Lotte and Maria (1987)
Movie
Director
A Virus Knows No Morals (1986)
Movie
(archive footage)
September September (1986)
Movie
Director
Horror Vacui (1984)
Movie
The Bite (1984)
Movie
Director
Red Love (1983)
Movie
Director / Writer
City of Lost Souls (1983)
Movie
Director
Our Corpses Are Still Alive (1981)
Movie
Director
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot (1979)
Movie
Actor
Der 24. Stock (1979)
Movie
Director
Tally Brown, New York (1979)
Movie
Director
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979)
Movie
Self
NDR Talk Show (1979)
TV
Self
Bio’s Bahnhof (1978)
TV
Director
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen (1977)
Movie
Self
George and Mike Kuchar (1977)
Movie
Director
I’m an Antistar (1976)
Movie
Director
Underground and Emigrants (1976)
Movie
Self
Kölner Treff (1976)
TV
Actor
Marianne Rosenberg (1976)
Movie
Director
Berliner Bettwurst (1975)
Movie
Matrose
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975)
Movie
Self
III nach neun (1974)
TV
Director
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt (1974)
Movie
Self
Je später der Abend (1973)
TV
Director
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus (1972)
Movie
Actor
Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk (1972)
Movie
Director
Passions (1972)
Movie
Director
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971)
Movie
Director
Die Bettwurst (1971)
Movie
6
Director
Homosexuelle in New York (1971)
Movie
Director
Schwestern der Revolution (1969)
Movie
Director
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil (1969)
Movie
Assistant Director
Neurasia (1969)
Movie
Director
Beckett in Berlin (1969)
Movie
Beleuchter
Carla (1968)
Movie
Assistant Director
(A)lter (A)ction (1968)
Movie
Director
Von Rosa von Praunheim (1968)
Movie
Actor
Silvo (1967)
Movie
Self
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung (1964)
TV
Ratings
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1942-11-25 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceRiga, Latvia
CitizenshipsGermany
AwardsCross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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