Rosa von Praunheim
Known for Directing
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.
Filmography
Mario Wirz
2014
as Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
as Self
Friendship of Men
2018
as Himself
Carla
1968
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
as Self
I Feel Like Disco
2013
as Rosa von Praunheim
The Bite
1984
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
as Erzähler
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
Rosa <3
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Silvo
1967
as Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
as Self
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
as Self
Two Mothers
2007
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
as Self
Positive
1990
as Self
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rent Boys
2011
as Self
Rosakinder
2012
as Self