Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Born November 25, 1942 — Died December 17, 2025
From Riga, Latvia
Also known as Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky
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 ...
Filmography
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Self
2025
Rosa <3
Self (archive footage)
2025
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Self
20248.8
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
20225.0
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Erzähler
20224.1
Isolation
Self
2021
Queer Cinema
Himself
2021
Meine Väter
Self
2021
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
Darkroom
20195.4
Friendship of Men
Himself
20184.3
My Wonderful West Berlin
20176.3
Desire Will Set You Free
Ezra's Agent
20154.5
Praunheim Memoires
Self
2015
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Vater
Man in Berlin
2015
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
20149.0
Mario Wirz
Self
2014
I Feel Like Disco
Rosa von Praunheim
20135.5
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
I am a Poem
Self
2012
Rosakinder
Self
20125.2
King of Comics
20124.5
Rent Boys
Self
20115.3
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
20115.5
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Two Mothers
2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
20074.8
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Self
20056.1
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
Self
200410.0
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Charlotte in Sweden
Self
20038.0
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Pfui, Rosa!
Self
20029.0
Birth of a Nation
Self
19977.0
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Self
19963.7
Transexual Menace
Self - Interviewer
19965.0
Fire Under Your Ass
199010.0
Positive
Self
19904.2
Silence = Death
Self
19905.1
Survival in New York
19898.0
Anita – Dances of Vice
19884.9
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Interviewer
19879.0
A Virus Knows No Morals
Rüdiger Kackinski
19864.8
September September
Self (archive footage)
1986
The Bite
19845.8
Tally Brown, New York
19797.5
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George and Mike Kuchar
Self
197710.0
Underground and Emigrants
Self
19767.0
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Matrose
19755.9
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Monolog eines Stars
19749.0
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Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
197210.0
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Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
Carla
1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim
19685.8
Silvo
Self
1967