Rosa von Praunheim
Known for: Directing
Born: November 24, 1942 in Riga, Latvia - Died: December 16, 2025
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.
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Isolation
Self
George and Mike Kuchar
Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
Silvo
Self
Charlotte in Sweden
Self
Vater
Man in Berlin
Pfui, Rosa!
Self
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
Queer Cinema
Himself
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Interviewer
Fire Under Your Ass
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
September September
Self (archive footage)
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
Positive
Self
Silence = Death
Self
Tally Brown, New York
Underground and Emigrants
Self
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Survival in New York
Two Mothers
