Rosa von Praunheim

Known for

Directing

Born

Nov 25, 1942

Died

Dec 17, 2025

From

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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I Feel Like Disco

20135.5out of 10

Die Harald Schmidt Show

19957.4out of 10

Darkroom

20195.4out of 10

Rent Boys

20115.3out of 10

Markus Lanz

20085.5out of 10

Zimmer frei!

19967.0out of 10

Desire Will Set You Free

20154.3out of 10

Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

20055.9out of 10

Anita – Dances of Vice

19884.9out of 10

Chez Krömer

20197.3out of 10

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

19755.9out of 10

Silence = Death

19905.1out of 10

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

20075.2out of 10

Positive

19904.2out of 10

King of Comics

20124.5out of 10

A Virus Knows No Morals

19864.8out of 10

DAS!

19914.7out of 10

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

20224.1out of 10