Rosa von Praunheim
Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Editor
November 25, 1942 — December 17, 2025 (83 years)
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
Filmography
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| 2019 | Darkroom · as Screenplay |
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| 2007 | Six Dead Students · as Screenplay |
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| 2005 | Your Heart in My Head · as Screenplay |
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| 2002 | Queens Don't Cry · as Screenplay |
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| 1999 | Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? · as Screenplay |
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| 1992 | I Am My Own Woman · as Screenplay |
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| 2020 | Operndiven - Operntunten · as Co-Producer |
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| 1990 | Silence = Death · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | Rex Gildo: The Last Dance · as Erzähler |
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| 2015 | Desire Will Set You Free · as Ezra's Agent |
| 2014 | Auf der Suche nach Heilern · as Cast |
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| 1995 | Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversion · as Cast |
| 1990 | Life Is Like a Cucumber · as Cast |
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| 1986 | A Virus Knows No Morals · as Rüdiger Kackinski |
| 1983 | City of Lost Souls · as Mann Mit Hund |
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| 1975 | The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors · as Matrose |
| 1968 | A Dandy in Aspic · as Extra |
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| 2024 | Thirty Years with the Whip · as Author |
| 2020 | Operndiven - Operntunten · as By |
| 1999 | The Einstein of Sex · as Film By |
| 1979 | Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts · as Cinematographer |
| 1979 | Tally Brown, New York · as Director Of Photography |
| 1975 | Berliner Bettwurst · as Director Of Photography |
| 1971 | Die Bettwurst · as Art Direction |
| 1971 | Die Bettwurst · as Director Of Photography |
| 1971 | It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives · as Director Of Photography |