Directing
Rosa von Praunheim
25 November 1942† 17 December 2025 (aged 83) Riga, Latvia
- Directed
- 90
- Written
- 53
- Produced
- 32
- Movies
- 55
- Shows
- 4
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
- Upcoming
- Sex und Tod · Film · Writer
- 2026
- Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm · Series
- 2025
- Last Exit Gran Canaria · Film
- Rosa <3 · Film
- Satanic Sow · Film · Director
- 2024
- Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal · Film
- Thirty Years with the Whip · Film · Director
- 2022
- Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 · Film
- Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors · Film
- Rex Gildo: The Last Dance · Film · Erzähler
- Rex Gildo: The Last Dance · Film · Writer
- 2021
- Isolation · Film
- Queer Cinema · Film
- Meine Väter · Film
- Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn · Film · Director
- 2020
- Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“ · Film
- Operndiven - Operntunten · Film · Director
- 2019
- 2018
- Friendship of Men · Film
- Friendship of Men · Film · Director
- 2017
- My Wonderful West Berlin · Film
- Survival in Berlin-Neukölln · Film · Director
- ACT! Wer bin ich? · Film · Director
- 2015
- Desire Will Set You Free · Film · Ezra's Agent
- Praunheim Memoires · Film
- Vater · Film · Man in Berlin
- Tough Love · Film · Director
- Praunheim Memoires · Film · Producer
- 2014
- How I Learned to Love the Numbers · Film
- Mario Wirz · Film
- Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart · Film · Director
- Mario Wirz · Film · Director
- Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte · Film · Director
- Auf der Suche nach Heilern · Film · Writer
- 2013
- I Feel Like Disco · Film · Rosa von Praunheim
- Pantoffelkino · Series · Guest
- 2012
- Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim · Film
- I am a Poem · Film
- Rosakinder · Film
- King of Comics · Film
- King of Comics · Film · Director
- Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim · Film · Editor
- Germans Taste the Best · Film · Director
- I am a Poem · Film · Producer
- Axel und Peter - Titten für Arsch · Film · Director
- 2011
- Rent Boys · Film
- Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter · Film
- Rent Boys · Film · Director
- 2010
- New York Memories · Film · Director
- 20 × Brandenburg · Film · Director
- 2009
- On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema · Film
- 24 Hours Berlin · Film · Director
- History of Hell · Film · Director
- 2008
- Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? · Film · Director
- Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians · Film · Director
- Der Rosa Riese · Film · Director
- 2007
- Two Mothers · Film
- Here’s Looking at You, Boy · Film
- Six Dead Students · Film · Director
- Two Mothers · Film · Director
- Mit Olga auf der Wolga · Film · Director
- 2005
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis · Film
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis · Film · Director
- Your Heart in My Head · Film · Director
- Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze · Film · Director
- Who is Helene Schwarz? · Film · Writer
- Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker · Film · Director
- Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga · Film · Writer
- 2004
- 2003
- Charlotte in Sweden · Film
- Charlotte in Sweden · Film · Director
- Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel · Film · Director
- 2002
- Pfui, Rosa! · Film
- Queens Don’t Cry · Film · Screenplay
- Pfui, Rosa! · Film · Director
- Cows Knocked Up by Fog · Film · Director
- 2000
- The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld · Film · Director
- Fassbinder's Women · Film · Director
- Wonderful Wrodow · Film · Director
- 1998
- Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement · Film · Director
- 1997
- Birth of a Nation · Film
- 1996
- I Was a Jewish Sex Worker · Film
- Transexual Menace · Film · Interviewer
- Transexual Menace · Film · Director
- 1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show · Series
- Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity · Film · Director
- 1994
- Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff · Film · Director
- 1992
- I Am My Own Woman · Film · Screenplay
- 1991
- Proud and Gay · Film · Director
- Ein Mann namens Pis · Film · Producer
- 1990
- Fire Under Your Ass · Film
- Positive · Film
- Silence = Death · Film
- What Is the Relationship Between Rosa von Praunheim and the Male Strippers in San Francisco? · Film
- Silence = Death · Film · Director
- Positive · Film · Director
- Life Is Like a Cucumber · Film · Director
- Fire Under Your Ass · Film · Director
- Die Weisheit · Film · Director
- 1989
- Survival in New York · Film
- Survival in New York · Film · Writer
- 1988
- Anita – Dances of Vice · Film
- Anita – Dances of Vice · Film · Director
- 1987
- Dolly, Lotte and Maria · Film · Interviewer
- Dolly, Lotte and Maria · Film · Director
- 1986
- A Virus Knows No Morals · Film · Rüdiger Kackinski
- September September · Film
- A Virus Knows No Morals · Film · Producer
- 1984
- The Bite · Film
- Horror Vacui · Film · Director
- 1983
- City of Lost Souls · Film · Director
- Red Love · Film · Writer
- 1981
- Our Corpses Are Still Alive · Film · Director
- 1979
- Tally Brown, New York · Film
- Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts · Film · Editor
- Tally Brown, New York · Film · Producer
- Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot · Film · Camera Operator
- Der 24. Stock · Film · Director
- 1977
- George and Mike Kuchar · Film
- George and Mike Kuchar · Film · Director
- Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen · Film · Director
- 1976
- Underground and Emigrants · Film
- Underground and Emigrants · Film · Writer
- Marianne Rosenberg · Film · Director
- I’m an Antistar · Film · Director
- 1975
- The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors · Film · Matrose
- Berliner Bettwurst · Film · Writer
- 1974
- Monolog eines Stars · Film
- Rosa von Praunheim zeigt · Film · Director
- Axel von Auersperg · Film · Director
- Monolog eines Stars · Film · Director
- 1973
- Je später der Abend · Series
- 1972
- Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk · Film
- Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972 · Film
- Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk · Film · Director of Photography
- Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus · Film · Editor
- Passions · Film · Director
- 1971
- It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives · Film · Director
- The Bed Sausage · Film · Director
- Homosexuelle in New York · Film · Director
- Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim · Film · Director
- 1969
- Neurasia · Film · Assistant Director
- Sisters of Revolution · Film · Director
- Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil · Film · Director
- Beckett in Berlin · Film · Director
- 1968
- Carla · Film
- Von Rosa von Praunheim · Film
- Von Rosa von Praunheim · Film · Director
- (A)lter (A)ction · Film · Assistant Director
- Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil · Film · Director
- 1967
- Silvo · Film