Rosa von Praunheim
Directing · Born 1942-11-25 · age 83 at death · 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.
Titles
I Feel Like Disco
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Darkroom
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Tough Love
Die Bettwurst
Rent Boys
Desire Will Set You Free
Anita – Dances of Vice
Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
Fassbinder's Women
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
I Am My Own Woman
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
Neurasia
Silence = Death
Horror Vacui
Your Heart in My Head
King of Comics
A Virus Knows No Morals
DAS!
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
City of Lost Souls
Positive
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
24 Hours Berlin
Tally Brown, New York
The Bite
Von Rosa von Praunheim
Queens Don’t Cry
Transexual Menace
Thirty Years with the Whip
Survival in New York
My Wonderful West Berlin
Life Is Like a Cucumber
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
Friendship of Men
Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
Sisters of Revolution
History of Hell
New York Memories
Berliner Bettwurst
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Fire Under Your Ass
Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Monolog eines Stars
Cows Knocked Up by Fog
Pfui, Rosa!
Underground and Emigrants
Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
Red Love
Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
Beckett in Berlin
Homosexuelle in New York