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Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim

Born: 1942-11-25 • Riga, Latvia

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.

Filmography
Last Exit Gran Canaria poster
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025 • Self
Rosa <3 poster
Rosa <3
2025 • Self (archive footage)
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal poster
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024 • Self
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 poster
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors poster
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022 • Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance poster
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022 • Erzähler
Isolation poster
Isolation
2021 • Self
Queer Cinema poster
Queer Cinema
2021 • Himself
No Image
Meine Väter
2021 • Self
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Darkroom poster
Darkroom
2019
Friendship of Men poster
Friendship of Men
2018 • Himself
My Wonderful West Berlin poster
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Desire Will Set You Free poster
Desire Will Set You Free
2015 • Ezra's Agent
Praunheim Memoires poster
Praunheim Memoires
2015 • Self
No Image
Vater
2015 • Man in Berlin
How I Learned to Love the Numbers poster
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014 • Self
Mario Wirz poster
Mario Wirz
2014 • Self
I Feel Like Disco poster
I Feel Like Disco
2013 • Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim poster
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rosakinder poster
Rosakinder
2012 • Self
King of Comics poster
King of Comics
2012
Rent Boys poster
Rent Boys
2011 • Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter poster
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011 • Self
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema poster
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Two Mothers poster
Two Mothers
2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy poster
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 • Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis poster
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005 • Self
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004 • Self
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Charlotte in Sweden
2003 • Self
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Pfui, Rosa!
2002 • Self
Birth of a Nation poster
Birth of a Nation
1997 • Self
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker poster
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
Transexual Menace poster
Transexual Menace
1996 • Self - Interviewer
Fire Under Your Ass poster
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Positive poster
Positive
1990 • Self
Silence = Death poster
Silence = Death
1990 • Self
Survival in New York poster
Survival in New York
1989
Anita – Dances of Vice poster
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Dolly, Lotte and Maria poster
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987 • Interviewer
A Virus Knows No Morals poster
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986 • Rüdiger Kackinski
September September poster
September September
1986 • Self (archive footage)
The Bite poster
The Bite
1984
Tally Brown, New York poster
Tally Brown, New York
1979
No Image
George and Mike Kuchar
1977 • Self
Underground and Emigrants poster
Underground and Emigrants
1976 • Self
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors poster
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975 • Matrose
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Monolog eines Stars
1974
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Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
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Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
Carla poster
Carla
1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim poster
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Silvo poster
Silvo
1967 • Self