Directing

Rosa von Praunheim

Born: 1942-11-25
Died: 2025-12-17
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia

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.

Known For

Menschen bei Maischberger

ZIBB

Tietjen und Bommes

3 nach 9

Filmography

147 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits

Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm

2026 · TV Show

Self

Last Exit Gran Canaria

2025 · Movie

Self

Rosa <3

2025 · Movie

Self (archive footage)

Satanic Sow

2025 · Movie

Director · Writer · Editor

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

2024 · Movie

Self

Thirty Years with the Whip

2024 · Movie

Director · Author

Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

2022 · Movie

Self

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

2022 · Movie

Cast

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

2022 · Movie

Erzähler · Writer · Director · Producer

Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn

2021 · Movie

Director · Producer

Isolation

2021 · Movie

Self

Legendär!

2021 · TV Show

Self

Meine Väter

2021 · Movie

Self

Queer Cinema

2021 · Movie

Himself

Operndiven - Operntunten

2020 · Movie

Director

Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“

2020 · Movie

Cast

Chez Krömer

2019 · TV Show

Self

Darkroom

2019 · Movie

Schlafender in S-Bahn · Director · Screenplay · Producer

Friendship of Men

2018 · Movie

Himself · Director · Writer · Producer

Abendshow

2017 · TV Show

Self

ACT! Wer bin ich?

2017 · Movie

Director

My Wonderful West Berlin

2017 · Movie

Cast

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

2017 · Movie

Director · Writer · Editor

Desire Will Set You Free

2015 · Movie

Ezra's Agent

Praunheim Memoires

2015 · Movie

Self · Writer · Producer · Director

Tough Love

2015 · Movie

Director · Writer · Producer

Vater

2015 · Movie

Man in Berlin

Auf der Suche nach Heilern

2014 · Movie

Writer · Director

Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte

2014 · Movie

Director

How I Learned to Love the Numbers

2014 · Movie

Self

Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart

2014 · Movie

Director

Mario Wirz

2014 · Movie

Self · Director

I Feel Like Disco

2013 · Movie

Rosa von Praunheim

Pantoffelkino

2013 · TV Show

Self - Guest

Axel und Peter - Titten für Arsch

2012 · Movie

Director · Writer · Producer · Editor

Germans Taste the Best

2012 · Movie

Director

I am a Poem

2012 · Movie

Self · Producer · Editor

King of Comics

2012 · Movie

Cast · Director · Writer · Editor · Producer

Rosakinder

2012 · Movie

Self

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

2012 · Movie

Cast · Writer · Producer · Editor · Director

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

2011 · Movie

Self

Rent Boys

2011 · Movie

Self · Director · Writer · Producer

20 × Brandenburg

2010 · Movie

Director

New York Memories

2010 · Movie

Director · Writer

24 Hours Berlin

2009 · Movie

Director

History of Hell

2009 · Movie

Director

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

2009 · Movie

Cast

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

2008 · Movie

Director · Editor · Screenplay

Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians

2008 · Movie

Director

Der Rosa Riese

2008 · Movie

Director

Markus Lanz

2008 · TV Show

Self

Paris-Berlin, le débat

2008 · TV Show

Self

0511 TV Lokal

2007 · TV Show

Self

ANNE WILL

2007 · TV Show

Cast

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

2007 · Movie

Self

Mit Olga auf der Wolga

2007 · Movie

Director

Six Dead Students

2007 · Movie

Screenplay · Director

Two Mothers

2007 · Movie

Cast · Director · Writer

Das perfekte Promi-Dinner

2006 · TV Show

Self

Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker

2005 · Movie

Director · Writer

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

2005 · Movie

Self · Director · Writer · Producer

Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga

2005 · Movie

Director · Writer

Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze

2005 · Movie

Director · Writer

Who is Helene Schwarz?

2005 · Movie

Writer · Director

Your Heart in My Head

2005 · Movie

Director · Screenplay · Producer

Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel

2004 · Movie

Self

Im Palais

2004 · TV Show

Self

Charlotte in Sweden

2003 · Movie

Self · Director

Menschen bei Maischberger

2003 · TV Show

Self

Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel

2003 · Movie

Director

ZIBB

2003 · TV Show

Self

Cows Knocked Up by Fog

2002 · Movie

Screenplay · Director

Pfui, Rosa!

2002 · Movie

Self · Director

Queens Don’t Cry

2002 · Movie

Screenplay · Producer · Director

Through the Night with...

2002 · TV Show

Self

Fassbinder's Women

2000 · Movie

Director

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld

2000 · Movie

Director · Producer

Wonderful Wrodow

2000 · Movie

Director

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement

1998 · Movie

Director

Birth of a Nation

1997 · Movie

Self

Nachtstudio

1997 · TV Show

Self

Tietjen und Bommes

1997 · TV Show

Self

I Was a Jewish Sex Worker

1996 · Movie

Self

Transexual Menace

1996 · Movie

Self - Interviewer · Director · Writer

Zimmer frei!

1996 · TV Show

Self

Die Harald Schmidt Show

1995 · TV Show

Self

Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity

1995 · Movie

Director · Writer · Producer

Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff

1994 · Movie

Director · Writer

I Am My Own Woman

1992 · Movie

Screenplay · Director · Producer

DAS!

1991 · TV Show

Cast · Self

Ein Mann namens Pis

1991 · Movie

Director · Producer

Proud and Gay

1991 · Movie

Director

Die Weisheit

1990 · Movie

Director

Fire Under Your Ass

1990 · Movie

Cast · Director · Writer · Producer

Life Is Like a Cucumber

1990 · Movie

Director · Writer · Producer

Positive

1990 · Movie

Self · Director · Writer · Producer · Editor

Silence = Death

1990 · Movie

Self · Director · Writer · Editor

What Is the Relationship Between Rosa von Praunheim and the Male Strippers in San Francisco?

1990 · Movie

Self

Survival in New York

1989 · Movie

Cast · Director · Writer

Anita – Dances of Vice

1988 · Movie

Cast · Writer · Director · Editor · Producer

Dolly, Lotte and Maria

1987 · Movie

Interviewer · Director · Writer · Producer

live - die ZDF-talkshow

1987 · TV Show

Self

A Virus Knows No Morals

1986 · Movie

Rüdiger Kackinski · Producer · Writer · Director

September September

1986 · Movie

Self (archive footage)

Horror Vacui

1984 · Movie

Director · Writer

The Bite

1984 · Movie

Cast

City of Lost Souls

1983 · Movie

Writer · Director

Red Love

1983 · Movie

Writer · Director · Director of Photography

Our Corpses Are Still Alive

1981 · Movie

Director

Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts

1979 · Movie

Editor · Writer · Producer · Cinematography · Director

Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot

1979 · Movie

Camera Operator · Director · Writer · Producer · Editor

Der 24. Stock

1979 · Movie

Director

NDR Talk Show

1979 · TV Show

Self

Tally Brown, New York

1979 · Movie

Cast · Writer · Producer · Editor · Director of Photography · Director

Bio’s Bahnhof

1978 · TV Show

Self

George and Mike Kuchar

1977 · Movie

Self · Director

Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen

1977 · Movie

Director

I’m an Antistar

1976 · Movie

Director

Kölner Treff

1976 · TV Show

Self

Marianne Rosenberg

1976 · Movie

Director

Underground and Emigrants

1976 · Movie

Self · Director of Photography · Producer · Writer · Director

Berliner Bettwurst

1975 · Movie

Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

1975 · Movie

Matrose

3 nach 9

1974 · TV Show

Self

Axel von Auersperg

1974 · Movie

Director · Editor · Producer · Writer

Monolog eines Stars

1974 · Movie

Cast · Director · Writer · Director of Photography · Editor