Rosa von Praunheim

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.

Directed

1. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) — Director
2. Darkroom (2019) — Director
3. The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (2000) — Director
4. Tough Love (2015) — Director
5. Die Bettwurst (1971) — Director
6. Rent Boys (2011) — Director
7. Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? (2008) — Director
8. Anita – Dances of Vice (1988) — Director
9. Fassbinder's Women (2000) — Director
10. I Am My Own Woman (1992) — Director
11. Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005) — Director
12. Silence = Death (1990) — Director
13. Horror Vacui (1984) — Director
14. Your Heart in My Head (2005) — Director
15. King of Comics (2012) — Director
16. Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity (1995) — Director
17. A Virus Knows No Morals (1986) — Director
18. City of Lost Souls (1983) — Director
19. Positive (1990) — Director
20. Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) — Director
21. Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022) — Director
22. 24 Hours Berlin (2009) — Director
23. Queens Don’t Cry (2002) — Director
24. Tally Brown, New York (1979) — Director
25. Transexual Menace (1996) — Director
26. Von Rosa von Praunheim (1968) — Director
27. Thirty Years with the Whip (2024) — Director
28. Life Is Like a Cucumber (1990) — Director
29. Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians (2008) — Director
30. Survival in New York (1989) — Director
31. Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement (1998) — Director
32. Friendship of Men (2018) — Director
33. Sisters of Revolution (1969) — Director
34. Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil (1969) — Director
35. History of Hell (2009) — Director
36. New York Memories (2010) — Director
37. Berliner Bettwurst (1975) — Director
38. Survival in Berlin-Neukölln (2017) — Director
39. Pfui, Rosa! (2002) — Director
40. Cows Knocked Up by Fog (2002) — Director

Also appeared in

1. I Feel Like Disco (2013) — Rosa von Praunheim
2. Darkroom (2019)
3. Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995) — Self
4. Markus Lanz (2008) — Self
5. Rent Boys (2011) — Self
6. Zimmer frei! (1996) — Self
7. Desire Will Set You Free (2015) — Ezra's Agent
8. Anita – Dances of Vice (1988)
9. Chez Krömer (2019) — Self
10. Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005) — Self
11. The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975) — Matrose
12. Silence = Death (1990) — Self
13. Positive (1990) — Self
14. King of Comics (2012)
15. A Virus Knows No Morals (1986) — Rüdiger Kackinski
16. DAS! (1991)
17. Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022) — Erzähler
18. Here’s Looking at You, Boy (2007) — Self
19. Rosakinder (2012) — Self
20. 3 nach 9 (1974) — Self
21. NDR Talk Show (1979) — Self
22. Tally Brown, New York (1979)
23. The Bite (1984)
24. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
25. Von Rosa von Praunheim (1968)
26. Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal (2024) — Self
27. Transexual Menace (1996) — Self - Interviewer
28. Menschen bei Maischberger (2003) — Self
29. Kölner Treff (1976) — Self
30. Survival in New York (1989)
31. My Wonderful West Berlin (2017)
32. I Was a Jewish Sex Worker (1996) — Self
33. Friendship of Men (2018) — Himself
34. Through the Night with... (2002) — Self
35. How I Learned to Love the Numbers (2014) — Self
36. Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter (2011) — Self
37. George and Mike Kuchar (1977) — Self
38. Charlotte in Sweden (2003) — Self
39. Pfui, Rosa! (2002) — Self
40. Dolly, Lotte and Maria (1987) — Interviewer