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.
Known For
All Movies (54)
- Last Exit Gran Canaria2025 · as Self
- Rosa <32025 · as Self (archive footage)
- Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal2024 · as Self
- Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 802022
- Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors2022 · as Self
- Rex Gildo: The Last Dance2022 · as Erzähler
- Isolation2021 · as Self
- Queer Cinema2021 · as Himself
- Meine Väter2021 · as Self
- Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“2020
- Darkroom2019
- Friendship of Men2018 · as Himself
- My Wonderful West Berlin2017
- Desire Will Set You Free2015 · as Ezra's Agent
- Praunheim Memoires2015 · as Self
- Vater2015 · as Man in Berlin
- How I Learned to Love the Numbers2014 · as Self
- Mario Wirz2014 · as Self
- I Feel Like Disco2013 · as Rosa von Praunheim
- Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim2012
- I am a Poem2012 · as Self
- Rosakinder2012 · as Self
- King of Comics2012
- Rent Boys2011 · as Self
- Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter2011 · as Self
- On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema2009
- Two Mothers2007
- Here’s Looking at You, Boy2007 · as Self
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis2005 · as Self
- Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel2004 · as Self
- Charlotte in Sweden2003 · as Self
- Pfui, Rosa!2002 · as Self
- Birth of a Nation1997 · as Self
- I Was a Jewish Sex Worker1996 · as Self
- Transexual Menace1996 · as Self - Interviewer
- Fire Under Your Ass1990
- Positive1990 · as Self
- Silence = Death1990 · as Self
- Survival in New York1989
- Anita – Dances of Vice1988
- Dolly, Lotte and Maria1987 · as Interviewer
- A Virus Knows No Morals1986 · as Rüdiger Kackinski
- September September1986 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Bite1984
- Tally Brown, New York1979
- George and Mike Kuchar1977 · as Self
- Underground and Emigrants1976 · as Self
- The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors1975 · as Matrose
- Monolog eines Stars1974
- Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk1972
- Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 19721972
- Carla1968
- Von Rosa von Praunheim1968
- Silvo1967 · as Self
All TV Shows (27)
- Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm2026 · as Self
- Legendär!2021 · as Self
- Chez Krömer2019 · as Self
- Abendshow2017 · as Self
- Pantoffelkino2013 · as Self - Guest
- Markus Lanz2008 · as Self
- Paris-Berlin, le débat2008 · as Self
- ANNE WILL2007
- 0511 TV Lokal2007 · as Self
- Das perfekte Promi-Dinner2006 · as Self
- Im Palais2004 · as Self
- ZIBB2003 · as Self
- Menschen bei Maischberger2003 · as Self
- Through the Night with...2002 · as Self
- Nachtstudio1997 · as Self
- Tietjen und Bommes1997 · as Self
- Zimmer frei!1996 · as Self
- Die Harald Schmidt Show1995 · as Self
- DAS!1991
- DAS!1991 · as Self
- live - die ZDF-talkshow1987 · as Self
- NDR Talk Show1979 · as Self
- Bio’s Bahnhof1978 · as Self
- Kölner Treff1976 · as Self
- 3 nach 91974 · as Self
- Je später der Abend1973 · as Self
- Grimme Award1964 · as Self