Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Born November 25, 1942 in Riga, Latvia
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
Satanic Sow
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Self
Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
Thirty Years with the Whip
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Isolation
Self
Legendär!
Self
Queer Cinema
Himself
Meine Väter
Self
Operndiven - Operntunten
Chez Krömer
Self
Darkroom
Friendship of Men
Himself
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
ACT! Wer bin ich?
My Wonderful West Berlin
Desire Will Set You Free
Ezra's Agent
Tough Love
Praunheim Memoires
Self
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Mario Wirz
Self
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
I am a Poem
Self
Rosakinder
Self
King of Comics
Rent Boys
Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
20 × Brandenburg
New York Memories
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
24 Hours Berlin
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Markus Lanz
Self
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Two Mothers
ANNE WILL
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
Self
Your Heart in My Head
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
Through the Night with...
Self
Queens Don’t Cry
Fassbinder's Women
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
Birth of a Nation
Self
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Self
Zimmer frei!
Self
Transexual Menace
Self - Interviewer
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
I Am My Own Woman
DAS!
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Fire Under Your Ass
Positive
Self
Silence = Death
Self
Survival in New York
Anita – Dances of Vice
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Interviewer
A Virus Knows No Morals
Rüdiger Kackinski
September September
Self (archive footage)
Horror Vacui
The Bite
Red Love
City of Lost Souls
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
Tally Brown, New York
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
NDR Talk Show
Self
I’m an Antistar
Underground and Emigrants
Self
Kölner Treff
Self
Marianne Rosenberg
Berliner Bettwurst
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Matrose
Die Bettwurst
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Neurasia
Beckett in Berlin
Carla
Von Rosa von Praunheim
Silvo
Self