Directing · Riga, Latvia · Born November 25, 1942
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.
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
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MovieLast Exit Gran Canaria
2025
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MovieRosa <3
2025
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MovieHape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
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MovieGlückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
MovieCome with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
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MovieRex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
as Erzähler
MovieIsolation
2021
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TVLegendär!
2021
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MovieQueer Cinema
2021
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MovieMeine Väter
2021
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
TVChez Krömer
2019
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MovieDarkroom
2019
MovieFriendship of Men
2018
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Abendshow
2017
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MovieMy Wonderful West Berlin
2017
MovieDesire Will Set You Free
2015
as Ezra's Agent
MoviePraunheim Memoires
2015
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Vater
2015
as Man in Berlin
MovieHow I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
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MovieMario Wirz
2014
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MovieI Feel Like Disco
2013
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Pantoffelkino
2013
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MovieRosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
MovieI am a Poem
2012
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MovieRosakinder
2012
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MovieKing of Comics
2012
MovieRent Boys
2011
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MovieMondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
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MovieOn the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
TVMarkus Lanz
2008
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Paris-Berlin, le débat
2008
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MovieTwo Mothers
2007
TVANNE WILL
2007
0511 TV Lokal
2007
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MovieHere’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
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TVDas perfekte Promi-Dinner
2006
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MovieMen, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004
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Im Palais
2004
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ZIBB
2003
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Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
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Charlotte in Sweden
2003
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Pfui, Rosa!
2002
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TVThrough the Night with...
2002
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Nachtstudio
1997
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MovieBirth of a Nation
1997
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Tietjen und Bommes
1997
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MovieI Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
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TVZimmer frei!
1996
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MovieTransexual Menace
1996
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TVDie Harald Schmidt Show
1995
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TVDAS!
1991
MovieFire Under Your Ass
1990
MoviePositive
1990
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MovieSilence = Death
1990
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MovieSurvival in New York
1989
MovieAnita – Dances of Vice
1988
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
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MovieDolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
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MovieA Virus Knows No Morals
1986
as Rüdiger Kackinski
MovieSeptember September
1986
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MovieThe Bite
1984
MovieTally Brown, New York
1979
TVNDR Talk Show
1979
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Bio’s Bahnhof
1978
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George and Mike Kuchar
1977
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MovieUnderground and Emigrants
1976
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TVKölner Treff
1976
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MovieThe Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
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3 nach 9
1974
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Monolog eines Stars
1974
Je später der Abend
1973
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Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
MovieCarla
1968
MovieVon Rosa von Praunheim
1968
MovieSilvo
1967
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Grimme Award
1964
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