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Known For
Directing
Birthday
November 25, 1942
Died
December 17, 2025
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvia
Also Known As
- Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky
Rosa von Praunheim
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Biography
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 female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
Known For
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Self
Last Exit Gran Canaria
2025
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Himself (archive footage)
Rosa <3
2025
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Self
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
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Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
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Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
4.1
Erzähler
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
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Self
Isolation
2021
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Self
Legendär!
2021
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Himself
Queer Cinema
2021
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Self
Meine Väter
2021
Credits
Last Exit Gran Canaria
as Self
2025
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Rosa <3
as Himself (archive footage)
2025
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Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
as Self
2024
8.3
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
5.0
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler
2022
4.1
Isolation
as Self
2021
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Legendär!
as Self
2021
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Queer Cinema
as Himself
2021
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Meine Väter
as Self
2021
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
2020
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Chez Krömer
as Self
2019
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Darkroom
2019
5.3
Friendship of Men
as Himself
2018
4.3
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Abendshow
as Self
2017
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My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
6.3
Desire Will Set You Free
2015
4.5
Praunheim Memoires
as Self
2015
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Vater
as Man in Berlin
2015
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How I Learned to Love the Numbers
as Self
2014
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Mario Wirz
as Self
2014
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I Feel Like Disco
as Rosa von Praunheim
2013
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012
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Rosakinder
as Self
2012
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King of Comics
2012
4.5
Rent Boys
as Self
2011
5.3
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
as Self
2011
5.5
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
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Markus Lanz
as Self
2008
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Paris-Berlin, le débat
as Self
2008
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Two Mothers
2007
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ANNE WILL
2007
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0511 TV Lokal
as Self
2007
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self
2007
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Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
as Self
2006
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
as Self
2005
5.6
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
as Self
2004
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Im Palais
as Self
2004
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ZIBB
as Self
2003
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Menschen bei Maischberger
as Self
2003
6.3
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Charlotte in Sweden
as Self
2003
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Pfui, Rosa!
as Self
2002
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Through the Night with...
as Self
2002
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Nachtstudio
as Self
1997
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Birth of a Nation
as Self
1997
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Tietjen und Bommes
as Self
1997
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I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1996
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Zimmer frei!
as Self
1996
6.3
Transexual Menace
as Self - Interviewer
1996
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
1995
7.1
DAS!
1991
4.2
DAS!
as Self
1991
4.2
Fire Under Your Ass
1990
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Positive
as Self
1990
3.4
Silence = Death
as Self
1990
4.8
Survival in New York
1989
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Anita – Dances of Vice
1988
4.6
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live - die ZDF-talkshow
as Self
1987
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria
as Interviewer
1987
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A Virus Knows No Morals
as Rüdiger Kackinski
1986
3.8
September September
as Self (archive footage)
1986
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The Bite
1984
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Tally Brown, New York
1979
5.0
NDR Talk Show
as Self
1979
6.5
🎬
Bio’s Bahnhof
as Self
1978
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George and Mike Kuchar
as Self
1977
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Underground and Emigrants
as Self
1976
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Kölner Treff
as Self
1976
6.0
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
as Matrose
1975
4.5
🎬
3 nach 9
as Self
1974
6.5
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Monolog eines Stars
1974
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Je später der Abend
as Self
1973
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Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
1972
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Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
1972
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Carla
1968
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Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
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Silvo
as Self
1967
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Grimme Award
as Self
1964
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