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Personal Info

Known Credits 48

Gender Male

Birthdate 1942-11-25 (83 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Riga, Latvia

Also Known For

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 ...

Known For

Rosa <3

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

Acting

2025 -- Rosa <3 | Himself (archive footage)

2024 -- Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal | Self

2022 -- Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 |

2022 -- Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors | Rosa von Praunheim

2022 -- Rex Gildo: The Last Dance | Erzähler

2021 -- Isolation | Self

2021 -- Queer Cinema | Himself

2020 -- Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“ |

2019 -- Darkroom |

2018 -- Friendship of Men | Himself

2017 -- My Wonderful West Berlin |

2015 -- Desire Will Set You Free |

2015 -- Praunheim Memoires | Self

2015 -- Vater | Man in Berlin

2014 -- How I Learned to Love the Numbers | Self

2013 -- I Feel Like Disco | Rosa von Praunheim

2012 -- Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim |

2012 -- Rosakinder | Self

2012 -- King of Comics |

2011 -- Rent Boys | Self

2011 -- Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter | Self

2009 -- On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema |

2007 -- Two Mothers |

2007 -- Here’s Looking at You, Boy | Self

2005 -- Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis | Self

2004 -- Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel | Self

2003 -- Charlotte in Sweden | Self

2002 -- Pfui, Rosa! | Self

1997 -- Birth of a Nation | Self

1996 -- I Was a Jewish Sex Worker |

1996 -- Transexual Menace | Self - Interviewer

1990 -- Fire Under Your Ass |

1990 -- Positive | Self

1990 -- Silence = Death | Self

1989 -- Survival in New York |

1988 -- Anita – Dances of Vice |

1987 -- Dolly, Lotte and Maria | Interviewer

1986 -- A Virus Knows No Morals | Rüdiger Kackinski

1986 -- September September | (archive footage)

1984 -- The Bite |

1979 -- Tally Brown, New York |

1977 -- George and Mike Kuchar | Self

1976 -- Underground and Emigrants | Self

1975 -- The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors | Matrose

1972 -- Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk |

1968 -- Carla |

1968 -- Von Rosa von Praunheim |

1967 -- Silvo | Self