Rosa von Praunheim
Known for: Directing
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
Series
Markus Lanz
Self
2008
ZIBB
Self
2003
Series
DAS!
1991
Series
DAS!
Self
1991
Series
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
Series
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
Series
Kölner Treff
Self
1976
3 nach 9
Self
1974
Series
Zimmer frei!
Self
1996
Grimme Award
Self
1964
Series
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
Self
2006
Menschen bei Maischberger
Self
2003
Series
ANNE WILL
2007
Tietjen und Bommes
Self
1997
Nachtstudio
Self
1997
Series
Through the Night with...
Self
2002
Pantoffelkino
Self - Guest
2013
Abendshow
Self
2017
Je später der Abend
Self
1973
Series
Legendär!
Self
2021
Series
Chez Krömer
Self
2019
Im Palais
Self
2004
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self
2026
Bio’s Bahnhof
Self
1978
Film
The Bite
1984
live - die ZDF-talkshow
Self
1987
Film
Friendship of Men
Himself
2018
Film
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
2005
0511 TV Lokal
Self
2007
Paris-Berlin, le débat
Self
2008
Film
Survival in New York
1989
Film
I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
2013
Film
Silvo
Self
1967
Film
Meine Väter
Self
2021
Film
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022
Film
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
2007
Pfui, Rosa!
Self
2002
Film
Carla
1968
Film
Underground and Emigrants
Self
1976
Film
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
2014
Film
Birth of a Nation
Self
1997
Film
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Self
1996
Film
Desire Will Set You Free
Ezra's Agent
2015
Film
Darkroom
2019
Film
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
2011
Film
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
2022
Film
Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Transexual Menace
Self - Interviewer
1996
Film
Two Mothers
2007
Film
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
2024
Film
A Virus Knows No Morals
Rüdiger Kackinski
1986
Film
King of Comics
2012
Film
Silence = Death
Self
1990
Film
Isolation
Self
2021
Film
Rent Boys
Self
2011
Film
Tally Brown, New York
1979
Film
Positive
Self
1990
Film
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Film
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Matrose
1975
Film
Rosakinder
Self
2012
Film
I am a Poem
Self
2012
Film
September September
Self (archive footage)
1986
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Film
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Film
Mario Wirz
Self
2014
Film
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Monolog eines Stars
1974
Film
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Film
Queer Cinema
Himself
2021
Film
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Film
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Self
2025
Film
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Interviewer
1987
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
George and Mike Kuchar
Self
1977
Film
Praunheim Memoires
Self
2015
Film
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
Self
2004
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
Film
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Charlotte in Sweden
Self
2003
Vater
Man in Berlin
2015