Rosa von Praunheim
Born
25 November 1942 (83)
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvia
Also known as
Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky
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...
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 (40)
Satanic Sow
2025
🎬 Director
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
Rosa <3
2025
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
🎬 Director
Isolation
2021
Queer Cinema
2021
Meine Väter
2021
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020
Darkroom
2019
Friendship of Men
2018
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
Tough Love
2015
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Vater
2015
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014
🎬 Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
🎬 Director
Mario Wirz
2014
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
🎬 Director
I Feel Like Disco
2013
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rosakinder
2012
Germans Taste the Best
2012
🎬 Director
King of Comics
2012
Rent Boys
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
20 × Brandenburg
2010
New York Memories
2010
History of Hell
2009
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
24 Hours Berlin
2009