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Rosa von Praunheim

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: Directing

Born: Riga, Latvia, 1942-11-25

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Silvo	Self	0
2	1968	Von Rosa von Praunheim		50
3	1968	Carla		0
4	1972	Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972		0
5	1972	Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk		0
6	1975	The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors	Matrose	52
7	1976	Underground and Emigrants	Self	0
8	1977	George and Mike Kuchar	Self	0
9	1979	Tally Brown, New York		50
10	1984	The Bite		50
11	1986	September September	(archive footage)	0
12	1986	A Virus Knows No Morals	Rüdiger Kackinski	45
13	1987	Dolly, Lotte and Maria	Interviewer	0
14	1988	Anita – Dances of Vice		51
15	1989	Survival in New York		80
16	1990	Silence = Death	Self	56
17	1990	Positive	Self	40
18	1990	Fire Under Your Ass		0
19	1996	Transexual Menace	Self - Interviewer	55
20	1996	I Was a Jewish Sex Worker		10
21	1997	Birth of a Nation	Self	63
22	2002	Pfui, Rosa!	Self	0
23	2003	Charlotte in Sweden	Self	0
24	2004	Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel	Self	0
25	2005	Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis	Self	63
26	2007	Here’s Looking at You, Boy	Self	58
27	2007	Two Mothers		0
28	2009	On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema		0
29	2011	Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter	Self	55
30	2011	Rent Boys	Self	56
31	2012	King of Comics		52
32	2012	Rosakinder	Self	52
33	2012	Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim		0
34	2013	I Feel Like Disco	Rosa von Praunheim	57
35	2014	How I Learned to Love the Numbers	Self	90
36	2015	Vater	Man in Berlin	0
37	2015	Praunheim Memoires	Self	0
38	2015	Desire Will Set You Free		49
39	2017	My Wonderful West Berlin		63
40	2018	Friendship of Men	Himself	55
41	2019	Darkroom		55
42	2020	Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“		0
43	2021	Queer Cinema	Himself	0
44	2021	Isolation	Self	0
45	2022	Rex Gildo: The Last Dance	Erzähler	49
46	2022	Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors	Self	0
47	2022	Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80		50
48	2024	Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal	Self	83
49	2025	Rosa <3	Himself (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Grimme Awards Ceremony	Self	0
2	1973	Je später der Abend	Self	0
3	1974	3 nach 9	Self	65
4	1976	Kölner Treff	Self	60
5	1978	Bio’s Bahnhof	Self	0
6	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
7	1987	live - die ZDF-talkshow	Self	0
8	1991	DAS!		42
9	1991	DAS!	Self	42
10	1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self	70
11	1996	Zimmer frei!	Self	63
12	1997	Tietjen und Bommes	Self	0
13	1997	Nachtstudio	Self	0
14	2002	Through the Night with...	Self	80
15	2003	Menschen bei Maischberger	Self	63
16	2003	ZIBB	Self	0
17	2004	Im Palais	Self	0
18	2006	Das perfekte Promi-Dinner	Self	0
19	2007	0511 TV Lokal	Self	0
20	2007	ANNE WILL		0
21	2008	Paris-Berlin, le débat	Self	0
22	2008	Markus Lanz	Self	55
23	2017	Abendshow	Self	0
24	2019	Chez Krömer	Self	73
25	2021	Legendär!	Self	0