Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1942-11-25
Day of Death
2025-12-17
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvia
Rosa von Praunheim
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 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.
Filmography (53)
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
⭐ 0
Role:
Self (archive footage)
Rosa <3
2025
⭐ 8.8
Role:
Self
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
⭐ 5.0
Role:
Unknown
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
⭐ 4.1
Role:
Erzähler
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Isolation
2021
⭐ 0
Role:
Himself
Queer Cinema
2021
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Meine Väter
2021No Image
⭐ 0
Role:
Unknown
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
⭐ 5.4
Role:
Unknown
Darkroom
2019
⭐ 4.3
Role:
Himself
Friendship of Men
2018
⭐ 6.3
Role:
Unknown
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
⭐ 4.5
Role:
Ezra's Agent
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
