Rosa von Praunheim
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 25, 1942
- Place of birth
- Riga, Latvia
- Died
- December 17, 2025
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.
Movies with Rosa von Praunheim
- I Feel Like Disco 2013 · ★ 5.5
- Darkroom 2019 · ★ 5.4
- Rent Boys 2011 · ★ 5.4
- Desire Will Set You Free 2015 · ★ 4.3
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis 2005 · ★ 5.9
- Anita – Dances of Vice 1988 · ★ 4.9
- The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors 1975 · ★ 5.9
- Silence = Death 1990 · ★ 5.1
- Here’s Looking at You, Boy 2007 · ★ 5.2
- Positive 1990 · ★ 4.2
- King of Comics 2012 · ★ 4.5
- A Virus Knows No Morals 1986 · ★ 4.8
- Rex Gildo: The Last Dance 2022 · ★ 4.1
- Rosakinder 2012 · ★ 5.2
- Tally Brown, New York 1979 · ★ 7.5
- Survival in New York 1989 · ★ 8.2
- The Bite 1984 · ★ 5.8
- Birth of a Nation 1997 · ★ 7.0
- Von Rosa von Praunheim 1968 · ★ 5.8
- Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal 2024 · ★ 8.8
- Transexual Menace 1996 · ★ 5.0
- My Wonderful West Berlin 2017 · ★ 6.3
- I Was a Jewish Sex Worker 1996 · ★ 3.7
- Friendship of Men 2018 · ★ 4.3
- Pfui, Rosa! 2002 · ★ 8.5
- How I Learned to Love the Numbers 2014 · ★ 9.0
- Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter 2011 · ★ 5.5
- George and Mike Kuchar 1977 · ★ 10.0
- Charlotte in Sweden 2003 · ★ 8.0
- Dolly, Lotte and Maria 1987 · ★ 9.0
- Fire Under Your Ass 1990 · ★ 10.0
- Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk 1972 · ★ 10.0
- Underground and Emigrants 1976 · ★ 7.0
- Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 2022 · ★ 5.0
- Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel 2004 · ★ 10.0
- Monolog eines Stars 1974 · ★ 9.0
- Isolation 2021
- Silvo 1967
- Vater 2015
- Queer Cinema 2021
Movies directed by Rosa von Praunheim
- It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives 1971 · ★ 5.4
- Darkroom 2019 · ★ 5.4
- The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld 2000 · ★ 5.5
- Tough Love 2015 · ★ 5.9
- Rent Boys 2011 · ★ 5.4
- The Bed Sausage 1971 · ★ 5.4
- Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? 2008 · ★ 4.7
- Anita – Dances of Vice 1988 · ★ 4.9
- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis 2005 · ★ 5.9
- Fassbinder's Women 2000 · ★ 5.3
- I Am My Own Woman 1992 · ★ 4.6
- City of Lost Souls 1983 · ★ 5.3
- Silence = Death 1990 · ★ 5.1
- Horror Vacui 1984 · ★ 4.6
- Your Heart in My Head 2005 · ★ 4.6
- King of Comics 2012 · ★ 4.5
- Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity 1995 · ★ 5.3
- A Virus Knows No Morals 1986 · ★ 4.8
- Positive 1990 · ★ 4.2
- Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts 1979 · ★ 4.0
- Rex Gildo: The Last Dance 2022 · ★ 4.1
- 24 Hours Berlin 2009 · ★ 9.0
- Queens Don’t Cry 2002 · ★ 4.5
- Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians 2008 · ★ 4.4
- Tally Brown, New York 1979 · ★ 7.5
- Survival in New York 1989 · ★ 8.2
- Transexual Menace 1996 · ★ 5.0
- Von Rosa von Praunheim 1968 · ★ 5.8
- Thirty Years with the Whip 2024 · ★ 6.4
- New York Memories 2010 · ★ 5.2
- Life Is Like a Cucumber 1990 · ★ 6.7
- Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement 1998 · ★ 3.0
- Friendship of Men 2018 · ★ 4.3
- Sisters of Revolution 1969 · ★ 7.0
- Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil 1969 · ★ 5.7
- Pfui, Rosa! 2002 · ★ 8.5
- History of Hell 2009 · ★ 1.0
- Berliner Bettwurst 1975 · ★ 6.5
- Survival in Berlin-Neukölln 2017 · ★ 2.0
- Cows Knocked Up by Fog 2002 · ★ 8.0