About
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
Satanic Sow2025 · Director, Writer, Editor
Thirty Years with the Whip2024 · Director, Author
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance2022 · Writer, Director, Producer
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn2021 · Director, Producer
Operndiven - Operntunten2020 · Director
Darkroom2019 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Friendship of Men2018 · Director, Writer, Producer
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln2017 · Director, Writer, Editor
ACT! Wer bin ich?2017 · Director
Tough Love2015 · Director, Writer, Producer
Praunheim Memoires2015 · Writer, Producer, Director
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte2014 · Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern2014 · Writer, Director
Mario Wirz2014 · Director
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart2014 · Director
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim2012 · Writer, Producer, Editor, Director
I am a Poem2012 · Producer, Editor
Germans Taste the Best2012 · Director
King of Comics2012 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Rent Boys2011 · Director, Writer, Producer