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.
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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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62942
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Filmography (Movies)
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Character:Self
Release Date:21/06/2025
Rosa <3
Character:Himself (archive footage)
Release Date:03/02/2025
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Character:Self
Release Date:06/12/2024
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
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Release Date:25/11/2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Character:Self
Release Date:01/09/2022
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Character:Erzähler
Release Date:30/06/2022
Isolation
Character:Self
Release Date:30/09/2021
Queer Cinema
Character:Himself
Release Date:17/07/2021
Meine Väter
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2021
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
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Release Date:23/12/2020
Darkroom
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Release Date:08/06/2019
Friendship of Men
Character:Himself
Release Date:13/12/2018
My Wonderful West Berlin
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Release Date:11/02/2017
Desire Will Set You Free
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Release Date:28/08/2015
Praunheim Memoires
Character:Self
Release Date:08/01/2015
Vater
Character:Man in Berlin
Release Date:01/01/2015
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Character:Self
Release Date:27/11/2014
Mario Wirz
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2014
I Feel Like Disco
Character:Rosa von Praunheim
Release Date:30/10/2013
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
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Release Date:23/10/2012
Rosakinder
Character:Self
Release Date:20/10/2012
King of Comics
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Release Date:01/03/2012
Rent Boys
Character:Self
Release Date:07/12/2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Character:Self
Release Date:07/04/2011
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
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Release Date:28/10/2009
Two Mothers
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Release Date:27/10/2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Character:Self
Release Date:16/02/2007
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Character:Self
Release Date:16/02/2005
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
Character:Self
Release Date:25/10/2004
Charlotte in Sweden
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2003
Pfui, Rosa!
Character:Self
Release Date:26/10/2002
Birth of a Nation
Character:Self
Release Date:06/08/1997
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
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Release Date:22/10/1996
Transexual Menace
Character:Self - Interviewer
Release Date:24/06/1996
Fire Under Your Ass
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Release Date:17/05/1990
Positive
Character:Self
Release Date:04/05/1990
Silence = Death
Character:Self
Release Date:16/02/1990
Survival in New York
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Release Date:26/10/1989
Anita – Dances of Vice
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Release Date:19/02/1988
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Character:Interviewer
Release Date:16/02/1987
A Virus Knows No Morals
Character:Rüdiger Kackinski
Release Date:16/01/1986
September September
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1986
The Bite
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Release Date:10/01/1984
Tally Brown, New York
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Release Date:04/05/1979
George and Mike Kuchar
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1977
Underground and Emigrants
Character:Self
Release Date:25/10/1976
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Character:Matrose
Release Date:24/10/1975
Monolog eines Stars
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Release Date:01/01/1974
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
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Release Date:11/10/1972
Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
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Release Date:01/01/1972
Carla
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Release Date:01/10/1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim
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Release Date:18/02/1968
Silvo
Character:Self
Release Date:07/07/1967
Television Appearances
Legendär!
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Chez Krömer
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Abendshow
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Pantoffelkino
Character:Self - Guest
Markus Lanz
Character:Self
Paris-Berlin, le débat
Character:Self
ANNE WILL
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0511 TV Lokal
Character:Self
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
Character:Self
Im Palais
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ZIBB
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Menschen bei Maischberger
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Through the Night with...
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Nachtstudio
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Tietjen und Bommes
Character:Self
Zimmer frei!
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
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DAS!
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DAS!
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live - die ZDF-talkshow
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NDR Talk Show
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Bio’s Bahnhof
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Kölner Treff
Character:Self
3 nach 9
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Je später der Abend
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Grimme Award
Character:Self
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