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Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim

Directing

Born: November 25, 1942Riga, 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.

Known For
Filmography
Last Exit Gran Canaria

Last Exit Gran Canaria

Self

2025
Rosa <3

Rosa <3

Self (archive footage)

2025
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

Self

2024
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Self

2022
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

Erzähler

2022
Isolation

Isolation

Self

2021
Queer Cinema

Queer Cinema

Himself

2021

Meine Väter

Self

2021

Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“

2020
Darkroom

Darkroom

2019
Friendship of Men

Friendship of Men

Himself

2018
My Wonderful West Berlin

My Wonderful West Berlin

2017
Desire Will Set You Free

Desire Will Set You Free

Ezra's Agent

2015
Praunheim Memoires

Praunheim Memoires

Self

2015

Vater

Man in Berlin

2015
How I Learned to Love the Numbers

How I Learned to Love the Numbers

Self

2014
Mario Wirz

Mario Wirz

Self

2014
I Feel Like Disco

I Feel Like Disco

Rosa von Praunheim

2013
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

2012
Rosakinder

Rosakinder

Self

2012
King of Comics

King of Comics

2012
Rent Boys

Rent Boys

Self

2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

Self

2011
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema

On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema

2009
Two Mothers

Two Mothers

2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

Self

2007
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

Self

2005

Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel

Self

2004

Charlotte in Sweden

Self

2003

Pfui, Rosa!

Self

2002
Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

Self

1997
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker

I Was a Jewish Sex Worker

1996
Transexual Menace

Transexual Menace

Self - Interviewer

1996
Fire Under Your Ass

Fire Under Your Ass

1990
Positive

Positive

Self

1990
Silence = Death

Silence = Death

Self

1990
Survival in New York

Survival in New York

1989
Anita – Dances of Vice

Anita – Dances of Vice

1988
Dolly, Lotte and Maria

Dolly, Lotte and Maria

Interviewer

1987
A Virus Knows No Morals

A Virus Knows No Morals

Rüdiger Kackinski

1986
September September

September September

Self (archive footage)

1986
The Bite

The Bite

1984
Tally Brown, New York

Tally Brown, New York

1979

George and Mike Kuchar

Self

1977
Underground and Emigrants

Underground and Emigrants

Self

1976
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

Matrose

1975

Monolog eines Stars

1974

Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk

1972

Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972

1972
Carla

Carla

1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim

Von Rosa von Praunheim

1968
Silvo

Silvo

Self

1967
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