Directing
Community Rating
5.0
TMDB estimate
Born
November 25, 1942
Died
December 17, 2025 (age 83)
Born in
Riga, Latvia
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.
Sex und Tod
as Writer, Director
TBA
—Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
as Self
2026
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Satanic Sow
as Director, Writer, Editor
2025
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Last Exit Gran Canaria
as Self
2025
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Rosa <3
as Self (archive footage)
2025
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Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
as Self
2024
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Thirty Years with the Whip
as Director
2024
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Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler, Writer, Director, Producer
2022
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Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
as Director, Producer
2021
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Isolation
as Self
2021
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Legendär!
as Self
2021
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Queer Cinema
as Himself
2021
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Meine Väter
as Self
2021
—Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
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Operndiven - Operntunten
as Director
2020
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Chez Krömer
as Self
2019
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Darkroom
as Director, Producer, Screenplay
2019
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Friendship of Men
as Himself, Director, Producer, Writer
2018
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