Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim

Directing

Personal Info

gender

Male

birthday

November 25, 1942

died

December 17, 2025

place of birth

Riga, Latvia

also known as

Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky

total credits

45 movies

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 concentration camps.

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Known For

Darkroom

Darkroom

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

as Self

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

as Self

How I Learned to Love the Numbers

How I Learned to Love the Numbers

as Self

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

as Erzähler

Desire Will Set You Free

Desire Will Set You Free

as Ezra's Agent

Filmography

45 credits · sorted by popularity · swipe or use arrows

Darkroom
5.4

Darkroom

2019
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

2022as Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
4.8

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

2007as Self
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
9.0

How I Learned to Love the Numbers

2014as Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
4.1

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

2022as Erzähler
Desire Will Set You Free
4.5

Desire Will Set You Free

2015as Ezra's Agent
Positive
4.2

Positive

1990as Self
I Feel Like Disco
5.5

I Feel Like Disco

2013as Rosa von Praunheim
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
6.1

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

2005as Self
Rent Boys
5.3

Rent Boys

2011as Self
Birth of a Nation
7.0

Birth of a Nation

1997as Self
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
8.8

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

2024as Self
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema

On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema

2009
Friendship of Men
4.3

Friendship of Men

2018as Himself
Rosa <3

Rosa <3

2025as Self (archive footage)
Tally Brown, New York
7.5

Tally Brown, New York

1979
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
5.5

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

2011as Self
Anita – Dances of Vice
4.9

Anita – Dances of Vice

1988
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

2012
Silvo

Silvo

1967as Self
Underground and Emigrants
7.0

Underground and Emigrants

1976as Self
Silence = Death
5.1

Silence = Death

1990as Self
Isolation

Isolation

2021as Self
A Virus Knows No Morals
4.8

A Virus Knows No Morals

1986as Rüdiger Kackinski
Survival in New York
8.0

Survival in New York

1989
Meine Väter

Meine Väter

2021as Self
Rosakinder
5.2

Rosakinder

2012as Self
Two Mothers

Two Mothers

2007
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
5.9

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

1975as Matrose
Transexual Menace
5.0

Transexual Menace

1996as Self - Interviewer
My Wonderful West Berlin
6.3

My Wonderful West Berlin

2017
King of Comics
4.5

King of Comics

2012
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
9.0

Dolly, Lotte and Maria

1987as Interviewer
Carla

Carla

1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim
5.8

Von Rosa von Praunheim

1968
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
3.7

I Was a Jewish Sex Worker

1996as Self
Queer Cinema

Queer Cinema

2021as Himself
September September

September September

1986as Self (archive footage)
Mario Wirz

Mario Wirz

2014as Self
The Bite
5.8

The Bite

1984
I am a Poem

I am a Poem

2012as Self
Fire Under Your Ass
10.0

Fire Under Your Ass

1990
Last Exit Gran Canaria

Last Exit Gran Canaria

2025as Self
Praunheim Memoires

Praunheim Memoires

2015as Self
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
5.0

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

2022