Rosa von Praunheim

Director

Born: November 25, 1942
Died: December 17, 2025 (age 83)
From: 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…

Filmography (117)

Satanic Sow (2025)
Director
Last Exit Gran Canaria (2025)
Self
Rosa <3 (2025)
Self (archive footage)
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal (2024)
Self
Thirty Years with the Whip (2024)
Director
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 (2022)
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)
Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022)
Director
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn (2021)
Director
Isolation (2021)
Self
Queer Cinema (2021)
Himself
Meine Väter (2021)
Self
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“ (2020)
Operndiven - Operntunten (2020)
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Darkroom (2019)
Director
Friendship of Men (2018)
Director
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln (2017)
Director
ACT! Wer bin ich? (2017)
Director
My Wonderful West Berlin (2017)
Desire Will Set You Free (2015)
Ezra's Agent
Tough Love (2015)
Director
Praunheim Memoires (2015)
Director
Vater
Vater (2015)
Man in Berlin
How I Learned to Love the Numbers (2014)
Self
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte (2014)
Director
Auf der Suche nach Heilern (2014)
Director
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart (2014)
Director
Mario Wirz (2014)
Director
I Feel Like Disco (2013)
Rosa von Praunheim
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim (2012)
Director