Rosa von Praunheim

Birthday: 1942-11-25
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
Sex und Tod
2025-02-15 Satanic Sow
2024-10-25 Thirty Years with the Whip
2022-06-30 Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2021-10-29 Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2020-04-19 Operndiven - Operntunten
2019-06-08 Darkroom
2018-12-13 Friendship of Men
2017-11-23 Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017-06-22 ACT! Wer bin ich?
2015-04-23 Tough Love
2015-01-08 Praunheim Memoires
2014-10-24 Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014-05-09 Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014-01-01 Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014-01-01 Mario Wirz
2012-10-23 Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012-03-01 King of Comics
2011-12-07 Rent Boys
2010-10-01 20 × Brandenburg
2010-07-15 New York Memories
2009-10-31 History of Hell
2009-09-05 24 Hours Berlin
2008-12-04 Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008-02-09 Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008-01-01 Rosa Riese
2007-11-29 Six Dead Students
2007-10-27 Two Mothers
2007-10-26 Mit Olga auf der Wolga
2005-09-20 Your Heart in My Head
2005-02-16 Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005-02-13 Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005-02-03 Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
2005-02-02 Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
2005-02-01 Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
2003-01-01 Charlotte in Sweden
2003-01-01 Ratten 07 - Im Berliner Dschungel
2002-10-26 Pfui, Rosa!
2002-10-26 Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002-02-09 Queens Don’t Cry
2000-11-10 Fassbinder’s Women
2000-07-31 Wonderful Wrodow
2000-03-16 The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
1998-06-09 Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1996-06-24 Transexual Menace
1995-01-01 Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
1992-10-30 I Am My Own Woman
1991-05-28 Stolz und schwul
1991-03-18 Ein Mann namens Pis
1990-12-20 Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990-05-17 Fire Under Your Ass
1990-05-04 Positive
1990-02-16 Silence = Death
1990-01-01 Die Weisheit
1989-10-26 Survival in New York
1988-02-19 Anita – Dances of Vice
1987-02-16 Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1986-01-16 A Virus Knows No Morals
1984-09-27 Horror Vacui
1983-10-04 Red Love
1983-02-27 City of Lost Souls
1981-01-01 Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1979-09-18 Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979-08-12 Der 24. Stock
1979-05-04 Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979-05-04 Tally Brown, New York
1977-01-01 George and Mike Kuchar
1977-01-01 Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
1976-12-05 I’m an Antistar
1976-10-25 Underground and Emigrants
1976-01-01 Marianne Rosenberg
1975-12-10 Berliner Bettwurst
1974-01-01 Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
1972-11-03 Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
1972-10-11 Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk
1972-05-31 Passions
1971-07-04 It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971-02-02 Die Bettwurst
1971-01-01 Homosexuelle in New York
1969-10-08 Schwestern der Revolution
1969-03-07 Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969-01-01 Beckett in Berlin
1968-06-01 Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968-02-18 Von Rosa von Praunheim