Rosa von Praunheim

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-11-25 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Riga, Latvia

Rosa von Praunheim

Biography

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.

Acting

2021

Isolation

as Self

1967

Silvo

as Self

2015

Vater

as Man in Berlin

2002

2021

Queer Cinema

as Himself

1987

1986

September September

as (archive footage)

1990

Positive

as Self

1990

2012

Rosakinder

as Self

2013

I Feel Like Disco

as Rosa von Praunheim

2011

Rent Boys

as Self

2018

1968

2025

Rosa <3

as Himself (archive footage)

1986

A Virus Knows No Morals

as Rüdiger Kackinski

1996

Transexual Menace

as Self - Interviewer

Production

1971

Die Bettwurst

as Director of Photography

1971

Die Bettwurst

as Editor

1971

Die Bettwurst

as Director

2002

Queens Don’t Cry

as Screenplay

2002

2002

2002

Pfui, Rosa!

as Director

2002

2002

1992

I Am My Own Woman

as Screenplay

1992

1979

1979

Tally Brown, New York

as Director of Photography

1976

Underground and Emigrants

as Director of Photography

2014

Mario Wirz

as Director

2011

Rent Boys

as Director

2007

Six Dead Students

as Screenplay

2007

2012

King of Comics

as Director

1983

1983

2009

History of Hell

as Director

1983

Red Love

as Writer

1983

Red Love

as Director

2011

Rent Boys

as Writer

2011

Rent Boys

as Producer

1990

Silence = Death

as Director

2010

1987

1987

1984

Horror Vacui

as Director

1990

Positive

as Director

1990

2015

Tough Love

as Director

1972

Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk

as Director of Photography

1990

Die Weisheit

as Director

1969

1979

1976

1977

2003

1972

Passions

as Director

2007

Two Mothers

as Director

2007

Two Mothers

as Writer

1989

1975

1975

1975

2000

1991

1991

1992

1990

Positive

as Writer

1990

1990

1990

1984

Horror Vacui

as Writer

2015

Tough Love

as Writer

2015

Tough Love

as Producer

2000

Wonderful Wrodow

as Director

2015

2015

1968

(A)lter (A)ction

as Assistant Director

1996

2005

2015

2017

2008

Rosa Riese

as Director

2007

1979

Der 24. Stock

as Director

2018

1971

Die Bettwurst

as Writer

2005

2019

Darkroom

as Director

1968

1969

Neurasia

as Assistant Director

1990

2018

2018

1990

Positive

as Producer

1990

Positive

as Editor

2019

Darkroom

as Screenplay

2019

Darkroom

as Producer

2009

24 Hours Berlin

as Director

2010

1991

Stolz und schwul

as Director

2012

2012

2012

King of Comics

as Producer

1976

-

Sex und Tod

as Writer

-

Sex und Tod

as Director

1975

Berliner Bettwurst

as Director of Photography

2025

Satanic Sow

as Director

2025

Satanic Sow

as Writer

2025

Satanic Sow

as Editor

2010

1974

1974

1974

1974

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