Rosa von Praunheim
Directing · Born Nov 25, 1942 · Died Dec 17, 2025 (83) · 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.
Directed
Satanic Sow
2025
Thirty Years with the Whip
20246.4
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
20224.1
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
Operndiven - Operntunten
20208.0
Darkroom
20195.4
Friendship of Men
20184.3
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
20172.0
ACT! Wer bin ich?
20178.0
Tough Love
20155.9
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
Mario Wirz
2014
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
King of Comics
20124.5
Rent Boys
20115.4
20 × Brandenburg
20105.0
New York Memories
20105.2
24 Hours Berlin
20099.0
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
20084.7
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
20084.4
Two Mothers
2007
Your Heart in My Head
20054.6
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
20055.9
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
20058.0
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
20028.0
Queens Don’t Cry
20024.5
Fassbinder's Women
20005.3
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
20005.5
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
19983.0
Transexual Menace
19965.0
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
19955.3
I Am My Own Woman
19924.6
Life Is Like a Cucumber
19906.7
Fire Under Your Ass
199010.0
Positive
19904.2
Silence = Death
19905.1
Survival in New York
19898.2
Anita – Dances of Vice
19884.9
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
19879.0
A Virus Knows No Morals
19864.8
Horror Vacui
19844.6
Red Love
19837.0
City of Lost Souls
19835.3
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
198110.0
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
19797.0
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
19794.0
Tally Brown, New York
19797.5
I’m an Antistar
197610.0
Underground and Emigrants
19767.0
Marianne Rosenberg
19769.0
Berliner Bettwurst
19756.5
The Bed Sausage
19715.4
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
19715.4
Beckett in Berlin
19697.0
Von Rosa von Praunheim
19685.8
