Rosa von Praunheim

83, from Riga, Latvia

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Biography

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.

Timeline

2025Aged 83

  • Poster for Rosa <3

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Last Exit Gran Canaria

    Self

  • Poster for Satanic Sow

    Editor

2024Aged 82

  • Poster for Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

    Self

  • Poster for Thirty Years with the Whip

    Author

2022Aged 80

  • Poster for Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

    Erzähler

  • Poster for Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Self

  • Poster for Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80

    (Unknown)

2021Aged 79

  • Poster for Meine Väter

    Self

  • Poster for Queer Cinema

    Himself

  • Poster for Isolation

    Self

  • Poster for Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn

    Producer

2020Aged 78

2019Aged 77

  • Poster for Darkroom

    Producer

2018Aged 76

  • Poster for Friendship of Men

    Himself

2017Aged 75

  • Poster for My Wonderful West Berlin

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for ACT! Wer bin ich?

    Director

  • Poster for Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

    Editor

2015Aged 73

  • Vater

    Man in Berlin

  • Poster for Praunheim Memoires

    Self

  • Poster for Desire Will Set You Free

    Ezra's Agent

  • Poster for Tough Love

    Producer

2014Aged 72

2013Aged 71

  • Poster for I Feel Like Disco

    Rosa von Praunheim

2012Aged 70

2011Aged 69

  • Poster for Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Self

  • Poster for Rent Boys

    Self

2010Aged 68

  • Poster for New York Memories

    Writer

  • Poster for 20 × Brandenburg

    Director

2009Aged 67

2008Aged 66

2007Aged 65

2005Aged 63

2004Aged 62

2003Aged 61

2002Aged 60

2000Aged 58

1998Aged 56

  • Poster for Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement

    Director

1997Aged 55

  • Poster for Birth of a Nation

    Self

1996Aged 54

  • Poster for Transexual Menace

    Self - Interviewer

  • Poster for I Was a Jewish Sex Worker

    Self

1995Aged 53

  • Poster for Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity

    Producer

1994Aged 52

1992Aged 50

  • Poster for I Am My Own Woman

    Producer

1991Aged 49

1990Aged 48

1989Aged 47

  • Poster for Survival in New York

    Writer

1988Aged 46

  • Poster for Anita – Dances of Vice

    Producer

1987Aged 45

  • Poster for Dolly, Lotte and Maria

    Interviewer

1986Aged 44

  • Poster for September September

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for A Virus Knows No Morals

    Rüdiger Kackinski

1984Aged 42

  • Poster for The Bite

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Horror Vacui

    Writer

1983Aged 41

  • Poster for City of Lost Souls

    Director

  • Poster for Red Love

    Director of Photography

1981Aged 39

  • Poster for Our Corpses Are Still Alive

    Director

1979Aged 37

  • Poster for Tally Brown, New York

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts

    Editor

  • Der 24. Stock

    Director

  • Poster for Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot

    Camera Operator

1977Aged 35

1976Aged 34

  • Poster for Underground and Emigrants

    Self

  • Poster for Marianne Rosenberg

    Director

  • Poster for I’m an Antistar

    Director

1975Aged 33

  • Poster for The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

    Matrose

  • Poster for Berliner Bettwurst

    Director of Photography

1974Aged 32

1972Aged 30

1971Aged 29

1969Aged 27

1968Aged 26

1967Aged 25

  • Poster for Silvo

    Self

Year unknown

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