Rosa von Praunheim
b. 1942 — d. 2025 (aged 83)
Riga, Latvia
Director
Writer
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
Filmography
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★ 5.5
Satanic Sow
2025 Director
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Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025 Self
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★ 5.7
Thirty Years with the Whip
2024 Director
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★ 7.1
Hape Kerkeling - Total normal
2024 Self
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★ 6.4
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022 Director
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★ 6.8
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022 Self
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★ 6.7
Isolation
2021 Self
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★ 5.0
Darkroom
2020 Director
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★ 7.1
Operndiven - Operntunten
2020 Director
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★ 6.2
Friendship of Men
2018 Director
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★ 6.6
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017 Director
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★ 8.0
ACT! - Wer bin ich?
2017 Director
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Mutter
2017 Actor
Vater 2
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Welcome All Sexes: 30 Jahre Teddy Awards
2016 Director
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Das Herz von Stuttgart
2016 Self
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★ 6.8
Tough Love
2015 Director
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Vater
2015 Actor
Man in Berlin
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★ 5.4
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
2014 Self
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★ 7.4
Praunheim Memoires
2014 Director
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★ 7.2
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
2014 Director
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★ 6.0
Hitler und Jesus - eine Liebesgeschichte
2014 Director
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Laura - Das Juwel von Stuttgart
2014 Self
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Mario Wirz
2014 Self
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★ 6.9
I Feel Like Disco
2013 Actor
Rosa von Praunheim
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★ 6.9
König des Comics
2012 Self
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★ 6.6
Rosakinder
2012 Actor
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Rosas Welt - 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012 Director
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Ausländer raus
2012 Self
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Eva Love
2012 Self
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Der fröhliche Serienmörder
2012 Director
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Mein Preussenpark
2012 Self
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Schwestern der Perpetuellen Indulgenz
2012 Self
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David Koks
2012 Director
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Eva Mattes
2012 Actor
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Der Luxus-Zahnarzt
2012 Director
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Knut ist gut
2012 Self
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Germans Taste the Best
2012 Director
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Marta und Hilde
2012 Director
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Babeth
2012 Self
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Ein Vater stirbt
2012 Director
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Ein schöner Akrobat
2012 Self
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Mit Speck fängt man Mäuse
2012 Director
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Was ist böse?
2012 Self
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Amélie - Das Mädchen aus dem Hinterhaus
2012 Director
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Porno Peto Meets the House of Galore
2012 Self
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Oberbürgermeister Schütz
2012 Self
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Missbraucht, Polizist und Mörder
2012 Self
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Eine jüdische Familie
2012 Director
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Der härteste Türsteher Berlins
2012 Director
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Ich bin ein Gedicht
2012 Self
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Klatschreporter
2012 Self
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Ein hartes Leben
2012 Director
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Eine lesbische Witwe
2012 Self
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Globales Lernen in Neukölln
2012 Director
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Professorin in Weimar
2012 Director
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Ein Journalist aus New York
2012 Director
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Aus Liebe zum Theater
2012 Director
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Rummelsnuff
2012 Director
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Outing Goethe
2012 Director
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Mösenmonat März
2012 Self
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Sin with Sebastian
2012 Director
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Peter Raue - Anwalt und Kunstliebhaber
2012 Self
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Bin ich Dein Onkel?
2012 Director
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Eva & Adele
2012 Self
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Gipsy Queen von New York
2012 Director
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Ich bin Edith aus Neukölln
2012 Self
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Dan Tang
2012 Director
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Mit Speck fängt man Filme
2012 Self
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Bukarest Nordbahnhof
2012 Director
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Der heilige Schein
2012 Self
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Möpse in Not
2012 Director
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New York Sisters
2012 Director
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Valentina
2012 Director
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Ichgola Androgyn
2012 Self
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Ave Maria
2012 Director
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Der falsche Graf
2012 Self
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Gay Not Grey - Anders altern
2012 Director
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Berlin Frobenstraße
2012 Director
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Berlin Callboys
2012 Director
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Axel und Peter - Titten für Arsch
2012 Director
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Baptisten in Berlin
2012 Self
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Von Auschwitz nach New York
2012 Director
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Ich bin ein erfolgreicher Türke
2012 Self
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Jugendtheater in Brandenburg
2012 Director
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Pädos und Hilfe für Jungs
2012 Director
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Eine Drag Queen aus Amsterdam
2012 Self
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Suzy, Elage und Hartz 4
2012 Director
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Ein grüner Sachse im Wedding
2012 Director
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Kings of Porn
2012 Self
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Meine Nachbarn
2012 Director
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Der Satanist
2012 Self
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This Brunner
2012 Director
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Ein engagiertes Leben
2012 Director
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Werner Schroeter
2012 Self
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Ich liebe große Hüte
2012 Self
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Der kranke Dichter
2012 Director
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Ein schwuler Schornsteinfeger
2012 Director
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Das Abaton
2012 Self
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★ 6.7
Rent Boys
2011 Self
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★ 6.9
Mondo Lux - Die Bilderwelten des Werner Schroeter
2011 Self