Rosa von Praunheim
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.
Acted in
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
as Self
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
as Rosa von Praunheim
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
as Erzähler
Isolation
2021
as Self
Queer Cinema
2021
as Himself
Smart Berlin: Der "Stutti"
2020
Darkroom
2019
Friendship of Men
2018
as Himself
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
Praunheim Memoires
2015
as Self
Vater
2015
as Man in Berlin
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
as Self
I Feel Like Disco
2013
as Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rosakinder
2012
as Self
King of Comics
2012
Rent Boys
2011
as Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
as Self
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Two Mothers
2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
as Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
as Self
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004
as Self
Charlotte in Sweden
2003
as Self
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
as Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Positive
1990
as Self
Silence = Death
1990
as Self
Survival in New York
1989
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
as Interviewer
September September
1986
as (archive footage)
The Bite
1984
Tally Brown, New York
1979
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
as Self
Underground and Emigrants
1976
as Self
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
as Matrose
Je später der Abend
1973
as Self
Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk
1972
Carla
1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Silvo
1967
as Self