Rosa von Praunheim
Directing · Born 1942-11-25 · Riga, Latvia
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.
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Last Exit Gran Canaria 2025
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Rosa <3 2025
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Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal 2024
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Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80 2022
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors 2022
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance 2022
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Isolation 2021
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Queer Cinema 2021
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Meine Väter 2021
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“ 2020
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Darkroom 2019
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Friendship of Men 2018
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My Wonderful West Berlin 2017
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Desire Will Set You Free 2015
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Praunheim Memoires 2015
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Vater 2015
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How I Learned to Love the Numbers 2014
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Mario Wirz 2014
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I Feel Like Disco 2013
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim 2012
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Rosakinder 2012
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King of Comics 2012
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Rent Boys 2011
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter 2011
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On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema 2009
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Two Mothers 2007
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy 2007
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis 2005
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel 2004
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Charlotte in Sweden 2003
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Pfui, Rosa! 2002
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Birth of a Nation 1997
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I Was a Jewish Sex Worker 1996
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Transexual Menace 1996
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Fire Under Your Ass 1990
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Positive 1990
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Silence = Death 1990
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Survival in New York 1989
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Anita – Dances of Vice 1988
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria 1987
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A Virus Knows No Morals 1986
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September September 1986
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The Bite 1984
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Tally Brown, New York 1979
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George and Mike Kuchar 1977
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Underground and Emigrants 1976
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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors 1975
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Monolog eines Stars 1974
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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 1967
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Satanic Sow 2025
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Thirty Years with the Whip 2024
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance 2022
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Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn 2021
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Operndiven - Operntunten 2020
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Darkroom 2019
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Friendship of Men 2018
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Survival in Berlin-Neukölln 2017
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ACT! Wer bin ich? 2017
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Tough Love 2015
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Praunheim Memoires 2015
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Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte 2014
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Auf der Suche nach Heilern 2014
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Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart 2014
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Mario Wirz 2014
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim 2012
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Germans Taste the Best 2012
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King of Comics 2012
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Rent Boys 2011
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20 × Brandenburg 2010
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New York Memories 2010
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History of Hell 2009
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24 Hours Berlin 2009
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Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? 2008
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Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians 2008
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Der Rosa Riese 2008
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Six Dead Students 2007
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Two Mothers 2007
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Mit Olga auf der Wolga 2007
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Your Heart in My Head 2005
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis 2005
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Who is Helene Schwarz? 2005
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Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga 2005
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Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker 2005
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Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze 2005
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Charlotte in Sweden 2003
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Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel 2003
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Pfui, Rosa! 2002
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Cows Knocked Up by Fog 2002
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Queens Don’t Cry 2002
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Fassbinder's Women 2000
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Wonderful Wrodow 2000
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld 2000
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Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement 1998
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Transexual Menace 1996
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Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity 1995
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Meine Oma hatte einen Nazipuff 1994
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I Am My Own Woman 1992
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Stolz und schwul 1991
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Ein Mann namens Pis 1991
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Life Is Like a Cucumber 1990
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Fire Under Your Ass 1990
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Positive 1990
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Silence = Death 1990
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Die Weisheit 1990
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Survival in New York 1989
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Anita – Dances of Vice 1988
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria 1987
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A Virus Knows No Morals 1986
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Horror Vacui 1984
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Red Love 1983
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City of Lost Souls 1983
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Our Corpses Are Still Alive 1981
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Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot 1979
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Der 24. Stock 1979
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Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts 1979
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Tally Brown, New York 1979
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George and Mike Kuchar 1977
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Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen 1977
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I’m an Antistar 1976
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Underground and Emigrants 1976
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Marianne Rosenberg 1976
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Berliner Bettwurst 1975
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Axel von Auersperg 1974
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Rosa von Praunheim zeigt 1974
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Monolog eines Stars 1974
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Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus 1972
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Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk 1972
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Passions 1972
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It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives 1971
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