Rosa von Praunheim

Personal Info

Birthday

November 25, 1942

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

Riga, Latvia

Rosa von Praunheim

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.

Known For

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

I Feel Like Disco

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

Dolly, Lotte and Maria

A Virus Knows No Morals

September September

Vater

Filmography

2025
Rosa <3
as Himself (archive footage)
2024
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
as Self
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler
2021
Isolation
as Self
Queer Cinema
as Himself
2018
Friendship of Men
as Himself
2015
Praunheim Memoires
as Self
Vater
as Man in Berlin
2014
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
as Self
2013
I Feel Like Disco
as Rosa von Praunheim
2012
Rosakinder
as Self
2011
Rent Boys
as Self
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
as Self
2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self
2005
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
as Self
2004
Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
as Self
2003
Charlotte in Sweden
as Self
2002
Pfui, Rosa!
as Self
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1996
Transexual Menace
as Self - Interviewer
1990
Positive
as Self
Silence = Death
as Self
1987
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
as Interviewer
1986
A Virus Knows No Morals
as Rüdiger Kackinski
September September
as (archive footage)
1977
George and Mike Kuchar
as Self
1976
Underground and Emigrants
as Self
1975
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
as Matrose
1967
Silvo
as Self