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Rosa von Praunheim

Personal Information

Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Born / DiedNov 25, 1942 (Died at 83)
Zodiac Sign♐Sagittarius
Place of BirthRiga, Latvia
Career Span1967 – 2025
Known Credits97 Titles
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Rosa von Praunheim

Also known as:Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky
Total Works

97

84 movies • 13 shows

Avg Rating

5.8 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

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.

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 97 titles featuring Rosa von Praunheim

I Feel Like Disco
5.5
I Feel Like Disco
2013•movie

as Rosa von Praunheim

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
5.4

Role: Director

Die Harald Schmidt Show
7.4
1 eps

as Self

Darkroom
5.4
Darkroom
2019•movie

as Schlafender in S-Bahn

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
5.5

Role: Director

Tough Love
5.9
Tough Love
2015•movie

Role: Director

Rent Boys
5.4
Rent Boys
2011•movie

as Self

Markus Lanz
5.5
1 eps
Markus Lanz
2008•series

as Self

The Bed Sausage
5.4
The Bed Sausage
1971•movie

Role: Director of Photography

Zimmer frei!
7.0
1 eps
Zimmer frei!
1996•series

as Self

Desire Will Set You Free
4.3

as Ezra's Agent

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
4.7

Role: Director

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
5.9

as Self

Anita – Dances of Vice
4.9
Chez Krömer
7.3
1 eps
Chez Krömer
2019•series

as Self

Fassbinder's Women
5.3
Fassbinder's Women
2000•movie

Role: Director

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
5.9

as Matrose

I Am My Own Woman
4.6
I Am My Own Woman
1992•movie

Role: Screenplay

Neurasia
6.9
Neurasia
1969•movie

Role: Assistant Director

Silence = Death
5.1
Silence = Death
1990•movie

as Self

City of Lost Souls
5.3
City of Lost Souls
1983•movie

Role: Writer

Horror Vacui
4.6
Horror Vacui
1984•movie

Role: Director

Your Heart in My Head
4.6

Role: Director

Here’s Looking at You, Boy
5.2

as Self

Positive
4.2
Positive
1990•movie

as Self

King of Comics
4.5
King of Comics
2012•movie
A Virus Knows No Morals
4.8

as Rüdiger Kackinski

DAS!
4.7
1 eps
DAS!
1991•series
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
5.3

Role: Director

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
4.1

as Erzähler

Rosakinder
5.2
Rosakinder
2012•movie

as Self

Through the Night with...
7.9
2 eps

as Self

7.2
1 eps
3 nach 9
1974•series

as Self

NDR Talk Show
6.6
1 eps
NDR Talk Show
1979•series

as Self

Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
4.0

Role: Editor

24 Hours Berlin
9.0
24 Hours Berlin
2009•movie

Role: Director

Tally Brown, New York
7.5
Survival in New York
8.2
The Bite
5.8
The Bite
1984•movie
Birth of a Nation
7.0
Birth of a Nation
1997•movie

as Self

Von Rosa von Praunheim
5.8
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
8.8

as Self

Transexual Menace
5.0
Transexual Menace
1996•movie

as Self - Interviewer

Kölner Treff
6.8
2 eps
Kölner Treff
1976•series

as Self

Queens Don’t Cry
4.5
Queens Don’t Cry
2002•movie

Role: Screenplay

Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
4.4

Role: Director

Thirty Years with the Whip
6.4

Role: Director

My Wonderful West Berlin
6.3
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
3.7

as Self

Friendship of Men
4.3
Friendship of Men
2018•movie

as Himself

New York Memories
5.2
New York Memories
2010•movie

Role: Director

Life Is Like a Cucumber
6.7

Role: Director

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
3.0

Role: Director

How I Learned to Love the Numbers
9.0

as Self

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
5.5

as Self

Berliner Bettwurst
6.5
Berliner Bettwurst
1975•movie

Role: Director

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2.0

Role: Director

Dolly, Lotte and Maria
9.0

as Interviewer

Fire Under Your Ass
10.0
Underground and Emigrants
7.0

as Self

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
5.0
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
6.0
1 eps

as Self

Cows Knocked Up by Fog
8.0

Role: Screenplay

Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
7.0

Role: Camera Operator

Red Love
7.0
Red Love
1983•movie

Role: Writer

Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
8.0

Role: Director

Beckett in Berlin
7.0
Beckett in Berlin
1969•movie

Role: Director

Marianne Rosenberg
9.0
Marianne Rosenberg
1976•movie

Role: Director

ACT! Wer bin ich?
8.0
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017•movie

Role: Director

20 × Brandenburg
5.0
20 × Brandenburg
2010•movie

Role: Director

Operndiven - Operntunten
8.0

Role: Director

I’m an Antistar
10.0
I’m an Antistar
1976•movie

Role: Director

Our Corpses Are Still Alive
10.0

Role: Director

Isolation
Isolation
2021•movie

as Self

Silvo
Silvo
1967•movie

as Self

Queer Cinema
Queer Cinema
2021•movie

as Himself

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
September September

as Self (archive footage)

Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

as Self

Two Mothers
Two Mothers
2007•movie
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
Carla
Carla
1968•movie
Praunheim Memoires
Praunheim Memoires
2015•movie

as Self

Rosa <3
Rosa <3
2025•movie

as Self (archive footage)

Mario Wirz
Mario Wirz
2014•movie

as Self

Meine Väter
Meine Väter
2021•movie

as Self

Last Exit Gran Canaria

as Self

I am a Poem
I am a Poem
2012•movie

as Self

ANNE WILL
1 eps
ANNE WILL
2007•series
Legendär!
1 eps
Legendär!
2021•series

as Self

1 eps

as Self

Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart

Role: Director

Six Dead Students
2007•movie

Role: Screenplay

Role: Director

Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn

Role: Director

Auf der Suche nach Heilern

Role: Writer

Satanic Sow
Satanic Sow
2025•movie

Role: Director