Rosa von Praunheim
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.
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Markus Lanz
2008
DAS!
1991
ZIBB
2003
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Kölner Treff
1976
NDR Talk Show
1979
Zimmer frei!
1996
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
3 nach 9
1974
ANNE WILL
2007
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
2006
Grimme Award
1964
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Nachtstudio
1997
Through the Night with...
2002
Legendär!
2021
Pantoffelkino
2013
Abendshow
2017
Je später der Abend
1973
Im Palais
2004
The Bite
1984
Bio’s Bahnhof
1978
Chez Krömer
2019
Tally Brown, New York
1979
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
Friendship of Men
2018
0511 TV Lokal
2007
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
Meine Väter
2021
Paris-Berlin, le débat
2008
Rosa <3
2025
Carla
1968
Silvo
1967
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
I Feel Like Disco
2013
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
Birth of a Nation
1997
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
Transexual Menace
1996
Darkroom
2019
Positive
1990
Silence = Death
1990
Survival in New York
1989
King of Comics
2012
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Two Mothers
2007
Underground and Emigrants
1976
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
I am a Poem
2012
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
Rent Boys
2011
Monolog eines Stars
1974
Isolation
2021
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2014
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
Rosakinder
2012
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Mario Wirz
2014
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Praunheim Memoires
2015
September September
1986
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
2004
Vater
2015
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Queer Cinema
2021
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
Charlotte in Sweden
2003
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
On the crew 92
History of Hell
2009
Tally Brown, New York
1979
Friendship of Men
2018
Die Bettwurst
1971
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
Queens Don’t Cry
2002
Die Weisheit
1990
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
Marianne Rosenberg
1976
Neurasia
1969
Wonderful Wrodow
2000
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
I Am My Own Woman
1992
Transexual Menace
1996
Darkroom
2019
Tough Love
2015
Positive
1990
Silence = Death
1990
Survival in New York
1989
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971
City of Lost Souls
1983
Axel von Auersperg
1974
Your Heart in My Head
2005
King of Comics
2012
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
1995
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Two Mothers
2007
Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990
Underground and Emigrants
1976
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1998
Six Dead Students
2007
Fassbinder's Women
2000
24 Hours Berlin
2009
I am a Poem
2012
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Red Love
1983
Rent Boys
2011
Monolog eines Stars
1974
Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
1977
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979
20 × Brandenburg
2010
Satanic Sow
2025
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Mario Wirz
2014
Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim
1971
Ein Mann namens Pis
1991
Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff
1994
Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
2005
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968
Der Rosa Riese
2008
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969
Horror Vacui
1984
(A)lter (A)ction
1968
Sex und Tod
Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
1974
Beckett in Berlin
1969
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Berliner Bettwurst
1975
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979
Germans Taste the Best
2012
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1981
New York Memories
2010
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
Der 24. Stock
1979
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
2014
Passions
1972
Homosexuelle in New York
1971
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
1972
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Charlotte in Sweden
2003
Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
2003
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
George and Mike Kuchar
1977
I’m an Antistar
1976
Mit Olga auf der Wolga
2007
Sisters of Revolution
1969
Proud and Gay
1991
Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
2005
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
2005