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.
54 movies · 26 shows
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025·0.0
Rosa <3
2025·0.0
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024·8.8
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022·5.0
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022·0.0
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022·4.1
Isolation
2021·0.0
Queer Cinema
2021·0.0
Meine Väter
2021·0.0
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020·0.0
Darkroom
2019·5.4
Friendship of Men
2018·4.3
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017·6.3
Desire Will Set You Free
2015·4.5
Praunheim Memoires
2015·0.0
Vater
2015·0.0
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014·9.0
Mario Wirz
2014·0.0
I Feel Like Disco
2013·5.5
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012·0.0
I am a Poem
2012·0.0
Rosakinder
2012·5.2
King of Comics
2012·4.5
Rent Boys
2011·5.3
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011·5.5
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009·0.0
Two Mothers
2007·0.0
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007·4.8
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005·6.1
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004·10.0
Charlotte in Sweden
2003·8.0
Pfui, Rosa!
2002·9.0
Birth of a Nation
1997·7.0
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996·3.7
Transexual Menace
1996·5.0
Fire Under Your Ass
1990·10.0
Positive
1990·4.2
Silence = Death
1990·5.1
Survival in New York
1989·8.0
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988·4.9
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987·9.0
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986·4.8
September September
1986·0.0
The Bite
1984·5.8
Tally Brown, New York
1979·7.5
George and Mike Kuchar
1977·10.0
Underground and Emigrants
1976·7.0
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975·5.9
Monolog eines Stars
1974·9.0
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972·10.0
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972·0.0
Carla
1968·0.0
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968·5.8
Silvo
1967·0.0