Rosa von Praunheim
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.
Filmography
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
as Self
Rosa <3
2025
as Self (archive footage)
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 Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
as Erzähler
Isolation
2021
as Self
Queer Cinema
2021
as Himself
Meine Väter
2021
as Self
- No poster
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Darkroom
2019
Friendship of Men
2018
as Himself
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
as Ezra's Agent
Praunheim Memoires
2015
as Self
- No poster
Vater
2015
as Man in Berlin
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
as Self
Mario Wirz
2014
as Self
I Feel Like Disco
2013
as Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
I am a Poem
2012
as Self
Rosakinder
2012
as Self
King of Comics
2012
Rent Boys
2011
as Self