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