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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.
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13 December 2018
In this docudrama Rosa von Praunheim looks into Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sexual orientation, especially into his erotic experiences during his travels in Italy.
27 November 2014
A New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
25 October 2004
Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
16 February 2007
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
10 January 1984
Turned while visiting New York, down-on-her-luck Neue Deutsche Welle vampire Sylvana struggles to get by in 1980s West Berlin when she realizes none of her friends want to be bitten.
16 February 2005
The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis.
19 February 1988
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin.
20 October 2012
Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday.
03 November 1972
Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".
29 October 2021
Rosa von Praunheim was inspired to make this film by his own radio play “Die Nachtigall” (The Nightingale) from 1986, when he improvised together with street singer Friedrich Steinhauer, who called himself “die Nachtigall vom Ramersdorf” (The Nightingale of Ramersdorf), and Luzi Kryn, who became famous for her role in Praunheim’s film DIE BETTWURST.
09 February 2002
Bosom buddies BeV StroganoV, Ovo Maltine, Ichgola Androgyn and Tima die Göttliche are four Berlin drag queens who met in the mid 1980s.
16 March 2000
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century.
30 June 2022
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972.
01 January 1986
"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhauser Allee, which seems to be depopulated.
25 October 2024
A portrait of Rosa von Praunheim's neighbor, who worked for decades as a professional dominatrix in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district.
16 February 1990
AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
08 October 1969
Feminist short film set in West Berlin. A militant group of homosexuals who campaign for women's liberation.
28 August 2015
Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye.
08 June 2019
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete.
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
25 October 1976
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who is interviewed in Spanish).
16 January 1986
Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his mind on profits.
04 May 1979
Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.
20 September 2005
A retelling of the events that led to the death of Bernd Juergen Brandes. Brandes responded to Armin Meiwes' Internet ad in 2001, where Meiwes indicated that he was looking for a man willing to be killed and eaten.
04 May 1979
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim.
03 February 2025
A sensual hommage to Germany's most productive queer filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim.
17 July 2021
How gay, how lesbian, how trans is German cinema? A 3sat documentary looks back at 100 years of queer film history.
29 November 2007
Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught for six years.
27 February 1983
A fictionalized account about the lurid lives of a group of eccentric cabaret artists who have come from America to Berlin looking for social acceptance and a place to give full reign to their creative nature.
04 May 1990
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic.
10 November 2000
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
31 October 2009
A German documentary studying concepts of hell developed over time in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, often overlapping -but not in Catholicism- with purgatory.
04 July 1971
Daniel, a young gay man, tries to pursue a traditional bourgeois relationship and lifestyle with his live-in boyfriend, but after their love quickly fades, he finds himself moving through different avenues of gay subculture, in pursuit of exotic pleasures.
01 January 1976
Portrait on Marianne Rosenberg, underground icon Tabea Blumenschein dancing in the background.
26 October 1989
Rosa von Praunheim follows the lives and existential struggles of three contrasting German emigrant women in New York City.
01 September 1971
It is love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim’s outrageous genre, social satire.
01 January 1995
Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater.
31 July 2000
No Eastern cliché fits the small village of Wrodow in the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern, about which Rosa von Praunheim filmed a documentary in the fall of 1999.
28 October 2009
You say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cineastic probation – at least until you watch Bernd Sobolla’s documentary.
30 September 2021
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic.
27 October 2007
Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim searches for his biological mother after discovering late in life that he was adopted.
01 January 1969
Samuel Beckett walks in Berlin in 1969.
19 April 2020
Gay men love operas. Is that a stereotype? Markus Tiarks and Rosa von Praunheim try to find out.
27 November 2025
Rosa von Praunheim is the satanic sow, incarnated by the wanton actor Armin Dallapiccola. A poetic compendium of life and death with pushy fans, the Good Lord, lovers and Rosa’s horrified mother.
25 November 2022
Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked the middle-class to homophobic majority society.
31 May 1972
A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics and misfits as he travels, before reaching some sort of peace in Hawaii.
30 October 1992
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement.
01 September 2022
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany.
07 March 1969
Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.
01 October 1968
Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.
23 April 2015
Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...
09 June 1998
A look at gay history over the last 100 years.
30 October 2013
A youth in middle of self-discovery, offending with his father, just discovering his sexuality and hiding it again.
01 June 1968
Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.
26 October 2002
Catchy mix of farce and documentary. Portrait of a Berlin theatre company made up entirely of the homeless, alcoholics and junks.
04 December 2008
A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.
18 September 1979
A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.
01 January 2008
The press called him the “Pink Giant” or the “Beast from Beelitz”. Before the fall of the Wall, he murdered five women.
07 April 2011
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
24 October 1975
In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl.
