Director
Rosa von Praunheim
November 25, 1942 · 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.
Often works with
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Lotti Huber
4 titles together
Anita – Dances of Vice, Horror Vacui, City of Lost Souls
Eva-Maria Kurz
3 titles together
Anita – Dances of Vice, A Virus Knows No Morals, Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
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Luzi Kryn
3 titles together
Die Bettwurst, Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?, Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
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Ichgola Androgyn
3 titles together
I Am My Own Woman, Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity, A Virus Knows No Morals
Katy Karrenbauer
2 titles together
Darkroom, Tough Love
Christiane Ziehl
2 titles together
Darkroom, Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Full filmography · 71
Satanic Sow
Director and Writer
2025
Thirty Years with the Whip
Director
2024
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
cast
2022
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler and Writer and Director
2022
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Director
2021
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director
2020
Darkroom
cast and Director
20195.4
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Director and Writer
2017
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Director
2017
My Wonderful West Berlin
cast
2017
Desire Will Set You Free
as Ezra's Agent
2015
Tough Love
Director and Writer
2015