Rosa von Praunheim

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Rosa von Praunheim

Directing November 25, 1942

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 Sw…

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DAS!

DAS!

4.7 1991 TV Show
Die Harald Schmidt Show

Die Harald Schmidt Show

7.4 1995 TV Show
Markus Lanz

Markus Lanz

5.5 2008 TV Show
Kölner Treff

Kölner Treff

6.8 1976 TV Show
NDR Talk Show

NDR Talk Show

6.6 1979 TV Show
Zimmer frei!

Zimmer frei!

7.0 1996 TV Show
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner

Das perfekte Promi-Dinner

6.0 2006 TV Show
ANNE WILL

ANNE WILL

2007 TV Show
Through the Night with...

Through the Night with...

7.9 2002 TV Show
Legendär!

Legendär!

2021 TV Show
Chez Krömer

Chez Krömer

7.3 2019 TV Show
I Feel Like Disco

I Feel Like Disco

5.5 2013 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm

    TV show Self

  2. 2025
    Satanic Sow

    Movie Director

  3. 2025
    Last Exit Gran Canaria

    Movie Self

  4. 2025
    Rosa <3

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  5. 2024
    Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

    Movie Self

  6. 2024
    Thirty Years with the Whip

    Movie Director

  7. 2022
    Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

    Movie

  8. 2022
    Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Movie Self

  9. 2022
    Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

    Movie Erzähler

  10. 2021
    Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn

    Movie Director

  11. 2021
    Isolation

    Movie Self

  12. 2021
    Legendär!

    TV show Self

  13. 2021
    Queer Cinema

    Movie Himself

  14. 2021
    Meine Väter

    Movie Self

  15. 2020
    Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“

    Movie

  16. 2020
    Operndiven - Operntunten

    Movie Director

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  1. 2019
    Chez Krömer

    TV show Self

  2. 2019
    Darkroom

    Movie

  3. 2018
    Friendship of Men

    Movie Himself

  4. 2017
    Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

    Movie Director

  5. 2017
    Abendshow

    TV show Self

  6. 2017
    ACT! Wer bin ich?

    Movie Director

  7. 2017
    My Wonderful West Berlin

    Movie

  8. 2015
    Desire Will Set You Free

    Movie Ezra's Agent

  9. 2015
    Tough Love

    Movie Director

  10. 2015
    Praunheim Memoires

    Movie Self

  11. 2015
    Vater

    Movie Man in Berlin

  12. 2014
    How I Learned to Love the Numbers

    Movie Self

  13. 2014
    Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte

    Movie Director

  14. 2014
    Auf der Suche nach Heilern

    Movie Writer

  15. 2014
    Mario Wirz

    Movie Self

  16. 2014
    Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart

    Movie Director

  17. 2013
    I Feel Like Disco

    Movie Rosa von Praunheim

  18. 2013
    Pantoffelkino

    TV show Self - Guest

  19. 2012
    Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

    Movie

  20. 2012
    I am a Poem

    Movie Self

  21. 2012
    Rosakinder

    Movie Self

  22. 2012
    Germans Taste the Best

    Movie Director

  23. 2012
    King of Comics

    Movie

  24. 2011
    Rent Boys

    Movie Self