Rosa von Praunheim
🎬 Director

Rosa von Praunheim

🎂 Born 25 November 1942 (age 83)17 December 2025📍 Riga, Latvia
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Acting Credits
57
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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

Directed Films(57)

Thirty Years with the Whip
6.4
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024
Director
Darkroom
5.4
Darkroom
2019
Director
Underground and Emigrants
7.0
Underground and Emigrants
1976
Director
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
5.4
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000
Director
Friendship of Men
4.3
Friendship of Men
2018
Director
Die Bettwurst
5.4
Die Bettwurst
1971
Director
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
5.1
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
2008
Director
I Am My Own Woman
4.6
I Am My Own Woman
1992
Director
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
6.1
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2005
Director
Tally Brown, New York
7.5
Tally Brown, New York
1979
Director
Rent Boys
5.3
Rent Boys
2011
Director
Tough Love
5.9
Tough Love
2015
Director
Operndiven - Operntunten
8.0
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020
Director
Marianne Rosenberg
9.0
Marianne Rosenberg
1976
Director
Positive
4.2
Positive
1990
Director
Your Heart in My Head
4.6
Your Heart in My Head
2005
Director
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
4.1
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Director
Beckett in Berlin
7.0
Beckett in Berlin
1969
Director
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
4.0
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979
Director
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
5.1
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971
Director
Mario Wirz
Mario Wirz
2014
Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014
Director
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
5.3
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
1995
Director
Queens Don’t Cry
4.5
Queens Don’t Cry
2002
Director
A Virus Knows No Morals
4.8
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
Director
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2.0
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017
Director
Survival in New York
8.0
Survival in New York
1989
Director
Satanic Sow
Satanic Sow
2025
Director
Anita – Dances of Vice
4.9
Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
Director
City of Lost Souls
5.7
City of Lost Souls
1983
Director
King of Comics
4.5
King of Comics
2012
Director
Transexual Menace
5.0
Transexual Menace
1996
Director
Silence = Death
5.1
Silence = Death
1990
Director
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
3.0
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
1998
Director
24 Hours Berlin
9.0
24 Hours Berlin
2009
Director
Fassbinder's Women
5.3
Fassbinder's Women
2000
Director
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
10.0
Our Corpses Are Still Alive
1981
Director
Red Love
7.0
Red Love
1983
Director
Fire Under Your Ass
10.0
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
Director
Life Is Like a Cucumber
6.7
Life Is Like a Cucumber
1990
Director
Horror Vacui
4.6
Horror Vacui
1984
Director
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Director
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
3.5
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008
Director
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
2021
Director
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
9.0
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
1987
Director
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
8.0
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
2002
Director
ACT! Wer bin ich?
8.0
ACT! Wer bin ich?
2017
Director
I’m an Antistar
10.0
I’m an Antistar
1976
Director
New York Memories
4.8
New York Memories
2010
Director
Two Mothers
Two Mothers
2007
Director
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
7.0
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
1979
Director
20 × Brandenburg
5.0
20 × Brandenburg
2010
Director
Praunheim Memoires
Praunheim Memoires
2015
Director
Berliner Bettwurst
6.5
Berliner Bettwurst
1975
Director
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
8.0
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
2005
Director
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014
Director
Von Rosa von Praunheim
5.8
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
Director

Full Filmography(45 films)

YearTitleRating
1997Birth of a Nation★ 7.02019Darkroom★ 5.41976Underground and Emigrants★ 7.02013I Feel Like Disco★ 5.52018Friendship of Men★ 4.32025Rosa <32005Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis★ 6.12022Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors1979Tally Brown, New York★ 7.52011Rent Boys★ 5.32021Meine Väter1984The Bite★ 5.81990Positive★ 4.22014How I Learned to Love the Numbers★ 9.01967Silvo2015Desire Will Set You Free★ 4.52012I am a Poem2007Here’s Looking at You, Boy★ 4.82022Rex Gildo: The Last Dance★ 4.12011Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter★ 5.52014Mario Wirz2024Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal★ 8.81986A Virus Knows No Morals★ 4.82009On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema1989Survival in New York★ 8.01988Anita – Dances of Vice★ 4.92012King of Comics★ 4.52021Isolation1975The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors★ 5.92012Rosakinder★ 5.21996Transexual Menace★ 5.01990Silence = Death★ 5.11968Carla1990Fire Under Your Ass★ 10.01996I Was a Jewish Sex Worker★ 3.72012Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim2021Queer Cinema1987Dolly, Lotte and Maria★ 9.02007Two Mothers2017My Wonderful West Berlin★ 6.32015Praunheim Memoires2022Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80★ 5.01986September September1968Von Rosa von Praunheim★ 5.82025Last Exit Gran Canaria
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