Portrait of Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim

Directing

Biography

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.

Born: November 25, 1942

Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia

Filmography

2025
Rosa <3

as Himself (archive footage)

2021
Isolation

as Self

2021
Legendär!

as Self

2021
Queer Cinema

as Himself

2019
2018
2014
Mario Wirz

as Self

2013
I Feel Like Disco

as Rosa von Praunheim

2012
Rosakinder

as Self

2011
Rent Boys

as Self

2008
1996
1996
Transexual Menace

as Self - Interviewer

1991
1991
DAS!

as Self

1990
Positive

as Self

1990
1987
1986
A Virus Knows No Morals

as Rüdiger Kackinski

1986
September September

as (archive footage)

1979
1976
1968
1967
Silvo

as Self