Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing91
movieSatanic Sow
2025
Director
movieDarkroom
2019
Director
movieFriendship of Men
2018
Director
movieACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
Director
movieTough Love
2015
Director
moviePraunheim Memoires
2015
Director
movieMario Wirz
2014
Director
movieKing of Comics
2012
Director
movieRent Boys
2011
Director
movie20 × Brandenburg
2010
Director
movieNew York Memories
2010
Director
movie24 Hours Berlin
2009
Director
movieTwo Mothers
2007
Director
movieYour Heart in My Head
2005
Director
Pfui, Rosa!
2002
Director
movieCows Knocked Up by Fog
2002
Director
movieQueens Don’t Cry
2002
Director
movieFassbinder's Women
2000
Director
movieTransexual Menace
1996
Director
movieI Am My Own Woman
1992
Director
movieLife Is Like a Cucumber
1990
Director
movieFire Under Your Ass
1990
Director
moviePositive
1990
Director
movieSilence = Death
1990
Director
movieSurvival in New York
1989
Director
movieAnita – Dances of Vice
1988
Director
movieDolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Director
movieA Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Director
movieHorror Vacui
1984
Director
movieRed Love
1983
Director
movieCity of Lost Souls
1983
Director
movieTally Brown, New York
1979
Director
movieI’m an Antistar
1976
Director
movieMarianne Rosenberg
1976
Director
movieBerliner Bettwurst
1975
Director
Passions
1972
Director
movieDie Bettwurst
1971
Director
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
1969
Director
movieNeurasia
1969
Assistant Director
movieBeckett in Berlin
1969
Director
(A)lter (A)ction
1968
Assistant Director
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
1968
Director
movieVon Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Director
Sex und Tod
Director
Acting80
movieRosa <3
2025
Self (archive footage)
tvLegendär!
2021
Self
movieQueer Cinema
2021
Himself
movieFriendship of Men
2018
Himself
movieDesire Will Set You Free
2015
Ezra's Agent
Vater
2015
Man in Berlin
movieI Feel Like Disco
2013
Rosa von Praunheim
Pantoffelkino
2013
Self - Guest
ZIBB
2003
Self
movieTransexual Menace
1996
Self - Interviewer
tvDAS!
1991
Self
movieDolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Interviewer
movieA Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Rüdiger Kackinski
movieSeptember September
1986
Self (archive footage)
movieSilvo
1967
Self
Writing52
movieSatanic Sow
2025
Writer
movieDarkroom
2019
Screenplay
movieTough Love
2015
Writer
movieKing of Comics
2012
Writer
movieRent Boys
2011
Writer
movieTwo Mothers
2007
Writer
movieYour Heart in My Head
2005
Screenplay
movieCows Knocked Up by Fog
2002
Screenplay
movieQueens Don’t Cry
2002
Screenplay
movieI Am My Own Woman
1992
Screenplay
moviePositive
1990
Writer
movieSilence = Death
1990
Writer
movieHorror Vacui
1984
Writer
movieRed Love
1983
Writer
movieDie Bettwurst
1971
Writer
Production31
movieDarkroom
2019
Producer
movieFriendship of Men
2018
Producer
movieTough Love
2015
Producer
moviePraunheim Memoires
2015
Producer
movieI am a Poem
2012
Producer
movieKing of Comics
2012
Producer
movieRent Boys
2011
Producer
movieYour Heart in My Head
2005
Producer
movieQueens Don’t Cry
2002
Producer
movieI Am My Own Woman
1992
Producer
movieLife Is Like a Cucumber
1990
Producer
movieFire Under Your Ass
1990
Producer
moviePositive
1990
Producer
movieAnita – Dances of Vice
1988
Producer
movieDolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Producer
movieA Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Producer
movieTally Brown, New York
1979
Producer
movieBerliner Bettwurst
1975
Producer
movieDie Bettwurst
1971
Producer, Unit Manager
Editing16
movieSatanic Sow
2025
Editor
movieI am a Poem
2012
Editor
movieKing of Comics
2012
Editor
moviePositive
1990
Editor
movieSilence = Death
1990
Editor
movieDie Bettwurst
1971
Editor
Camera9
movieRed Love
1983
Director of Photography
movieDeath Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979
Camera Operator
movieTally Brown, New York
1979
Director of Photography
movieUnderground and Emigrants
1976
Director of Photography
movieBerliner Bettwurst
1975
Director of Photography
Monolog eines Stars
1974
Director of Photography
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
Director of Photography
movieDie Bettwurst
1971
Director of Photography
movieIt Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971
Director of Photography
Art1
movieDie Bettwurst
1971
Art Direction
Crew1
movieArmy of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979
Cinematography