Rosa von Praunheim
Nov 25, 1942 (82 years old) in Riga, Latvia
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is 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
Birth of a Nation
Self
Isolation
Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Rosa von Praunheim
Positive
Self
Rosakinder
Self
Credits
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Rosa <3 2025Himself (archive footage)★ NR -
Self★ 8.3 -
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Rosa von Praunheim★ NR -
Erzähler★ 4.9 -
Isolation 2021Self★ NR -
Queer Cinema 2021Himself★ NR -
★ NR -
Darkroom 2019★ 5.8 -
Friendship of Men 2018Himself★ 5.5 -
★ 6.3 -
★ 4.9 -
Praunheim Memoires 2015Self★ NR -
Vater 2015Man in Berlin★ NR
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Self★ 9 -
I Feel Like Disco 2013Rosa von Praunheim★ 5.7 -
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Rosakinder 2012Self★ 5.2 -
King of Comics 2012★ 5.2 -
Rent Boys 2011Self★ 5.6 -
Self★ 5.5 -
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Two Mothers 2007★ NR -
Self★ 5.8 -
Self★ 6.3 -
Self★ NR
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Charlotte in Sweden 2003Self★ NR -
Pfui, Rosa! 2002Self★ NR
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Birth of a Nation 1997Self★ 6.3 -
★ 1 -
Transexual Menace 1996Self - Interviewer★ 5.5 -
Self★ 7 -
Fire Under Your Ass 1990★ NR -
Positive 1990Self★ 4 -
Silence = Death 1990Self★ 5.6 -
Survival in New York 1989★ 8 -
★ 5.1 -
Interviewer★ NR -
Rüdiger Kackinski★ 4.5 -
September September 1986(archive footage)★ NR -
The Bite 1984★ 5 -
★ 5 -
Self★ NR
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Self★ NR -
Matrose★ 4.5 -
Je später der Abend 1973Self★ NR
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★ NR
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Carla 1968★ NR -
★ 5 -
Silvo 1967Self★ NR
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