Directed credits
45
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Rosa von Praunheim
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.0
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Directed movies: 45Directed series: 0All crew credits: 60
TMDB ID: 19864
IMDb ID: nm0902823
Known for: Directing
Born: November 25, 1942
Died: December 17, 2025
Age: 83
Place of birth: Riga, Latvia
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1967 - 2026
Years active: 60
Average TMDB rating: 5.18
Wikidata: Q62942
Also known as
Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky
Frequent jobs
Director (42)Director of Photography (2)Assistant Director (1)Writer (8)Screenplay (4)Camera Operator (1)Editor (1)Producer (1)
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.
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Rosa von Praunheim.
Satanic Sow
Director
2025 Movie
8.0
Thirty Years with the Whip
Director
2024 Movie
Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
Director
2021 Movie
8.0
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director
2020 Movie
5.4
Darkroom
Director
2019 Movie
4.3
Friendship of Men
Director
2018 Movie
2.0
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Director
2017 Movie
8.0
ACT! Wer bin ich?
Director
2017 Movie
5.9
Tough Love
Director
2015 Movie
Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
Director
2014 Movie
Mario Wirz
Director
2014 Movie
Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
Director
2014 Movie
4.5
King of Comics
Director
2012 Movie
5.3
Rent Boys
Director
2011 Movie
5.0
20 × Brandenburg
Director
2010 Movie
4.8
New York Memories
Director
2010 Movie
9.0
24 Hours Berlin
Director
2009 Movie
4.6
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Director
2008 Movie
3.5
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Director
2008 Movie
Two Mothers
Director
2007 Movie
4.0
Your Heart in My Head
Director
2005 Movie
5.6
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Director
2005 Movie
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
Director
2005 Movie
5.0
Fassbinder's Women
Director
2000 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Rosa von Praunheim.
5.0
The Bite
1984 Movie
4.3
Friendship of Men
Director
2018 Movie
Carla
1968 Movie
5.9
Tough Love
Director
2015 Movie
5.3
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Director
2000 Movie
6.4
Neurasia
Assistant Director
1969 Movie
Rosa <3
as Self (archive footage)
2025 Movie
5.0
Die Bettwurst
Director of Photography
1971 Movie
8.0
Operndiven - Operntunten
Director
2020 Movie
Mario Wirz
Director
2014 Movie
Marianne Rosenberg
Director
1976 Movie
Silvo
as Self
1967 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Rosa von Praunheim.
5.5
Markus Lanz
as Self • 1 eps
2008 Series
7.1
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
6.5
NDR Talk Show
as Self • 1 eps
1979 Series
4.2
DAS!
1 eps
1991 Series
6.0
Kölner Treff
as Self • 2 eps
1976 Series
ANNE WILL
1 eps
2007 Series
6.3
Zimmer frei!
as Self • 1 eps
1996 Series
8.0
Through the Night with...
as Self • 2 eps
2002 Series
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
as Self • 1 eps
2006 Series
7.3
Chez Krömer
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
Legendär!
as Self • 1 eps
2021 Series
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Rosa von Praunheim.
4.1
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Writer
2022 Movie
Praunheim Memoires
Writer
2015 Movie
Auf der Suche nach Heilern
Writer
2014 Movie
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Writer
2012 Movie
Six Dead Students
Screenplay
2007 Movie
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
Screenplay
2002 Movie
3.0
Queens Don’t Cry
Screenplay
2002 Movie
4.0
I Am My Own Woman
Screenplay
1992 Movie
4.6
Anita – Dances of Vice
Writer
1988 Movie
3.8
A Virus Knows No Morals
Producer
1986 Movie
Red Love
Writer
1983 Movie
5.0
City of Lost Souls
Writer
1983 Movie
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
Camera Operator
1979 Movie
3.2
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
Editor
1979 Movie
5.0
Tally Brown, New York
Writer
1979 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Rosa von Praunheim.
Last Exit Gran Canaria
as Self
2025 Movie
Rosa <3
as Self (archive footage)
2025 Movie
8.3
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
as Self
2024 Movie
5.0
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022 Movie
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022 Movie
4.1
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
as Erzähler
2022 Movie
Isolation
as Self
2021 Movie
Queer Cinema
as Himself
2021 Movie
5.4
Darkroom
2019 Movie
4.3
Friendship of Men
as Himself
2018 Movie
6.3
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017 Movie
4.5
Desire Will Set You Free
2015 Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Rosa von Praunheim.
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
as Self • 1 eps
2026 Series
Legendär!
as Self • 1 eps
2021 Series
7.3
Chez Krömer
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
5.5
Markus Lanz
as Self • 1 eps
2008 Series
ANNE WILL
1 eps
2007 Series
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
as Self • 1 eps
2006 Series
8.0
Through the Night with...
as Self • 2 eps
2002 Series
6.3
Zimmer frei!
as Self • 1 eps
1996 Series
7.1
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
4.2
DAS!
1 eps
1991 Series
6.5
NDR Talk Show
as Self • 1 eps
1979 Series
6.0
Kölner Treff
as Self • 2 eps
1976 Series