Rosa von Praunheim
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 25, 1942
- Died
- December 17, 2025 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- Riga, Latvia
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
I Feel Like Disco
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Darkroom
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Tough Love
Rent Boys
The Bed Sausage
Desire Will Set You Free
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Anita – Dances of Vice
Filmography
Sex und Tod
Movie · Director
Satanic Sow
Movie · Director
Thirty Years with the Whip
Movie · Director
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Movie · Director
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Movie · Director
Operndiven - Operntunten
Movie · Director
Darkroom
Movie · Director
Friendship of Men
Movie · Director
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Movie · Director
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Movie · Director
Tough Love
Movie · Director
Praunheim Memoires
Movie · Director
Mario Wirz
Movie · Director
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
Movie · Director
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
Movie · Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Movie · Director
King of Comics
Movie · Director
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Movie · Director
Germans Taste the Best
Movie · Director
Axel und Peter - Titten für Arsch
Movie · Director
Rent Boys
Movie · Director
New York Memories
Movie · Director
20 × Brandenburg
Movie · Director
History of Hell
Movie · Director
24 Hours Berlin
Movie · Director
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Movie · Director
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Movie · Director
Der Rosa Riese
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Six Dead Students
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Two Mothers
Movie · Director
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Movie · Director
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
Movie · Director
Your Heart in My Head
Movie · Director
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Movie · Director
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
Movie · Director
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
Movie · Director
Charlotte in Sweden
Movie · Director
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
Movie · Director
Queens Don’t Cry
Movie · Director
Pfui, Rosa!
Movie · Director
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
Movie · Director
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Movie · Director
Fassbinder's Women
Movie · Director
Wonderful Wrodow
Movie · Director
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
Movie · Director
Transexual Menace
Movie · Director
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
Movie · Director
Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff
Movie · Director
I Am My Own Woman
Movie · Director
Ein Mann namens Pis
Movie · Director
Proud and Gay
Movie · Director
Silence = Death
Movie · Director
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Movie · Director
Positive
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Fire Under Your Ass
Movie · Director
Die Weisheit
Movie · Director
Survival in New York
Movie · Director
Anita – Dances of Vice
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria
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A Virus Knows No Morals
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Horror Vacui
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City of Lost Souls
Movie · Director
Red Love
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Our Corpses Are Still Alive
Movie · Director
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
Movie · Director
Tally Brown, New York
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Der 24. Stock
Movie · Director
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
Movie · Director
George and Mike Kuchar
Movie · Director
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
Movie · Director
Underground and Emigrants
Movie · Director
Marianne Rosenberg
Movie · Director
I’m an Antistar
Movie · Director
Berliner Bettwurst
Movie · Director
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
Movie · Director
Axel von Auersperg
Movie · Director
Monolog eines Stars
Movie · Director
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
Movie · Director
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
Movie · Director
Passions
Movie · Director
The Bed Sausage
Movie · Director
Homosexuelle in New York
Movie · Director
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Movie · Director
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
Movie · Director
Beckett in Berlin
Movie · Director
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
Movie · Director
Sisters of Revolution
Movie · Director
Neurasia
Movie · Assistant Director
(A)lter (A)ction
Movie · Assistant Director
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
Movie · Director
Von Rosa von Praunheim
Movie · Director