Directing · b. 1932 · Halberstadt, Germany

Alexander Kluge

Biography

Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) was a German author, philosopher, academic and film director. Kluge became known in the 1960s and 1970s as one of the most influential representatives of the New German Cinema, which he helped to establish and develop in theory and practice.

Directed
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod 2026 Utopie der Oper 2026 Heterotopie der Oper 2026 Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 2026 Primitive Diversity 2025 Cosmic Miniatures 2024 Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) 2024 Planetary Man 2024 An Opera That Sparked a Revolution 2024 Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist 2024 Attack on a Thick Glass Door 2024 String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera 2024 Happy Root From Non-Identity 2024 Beginnings of Film Art 2024 Lied der Medea 2023 In the Rock of Signs 2022 Reason is a Balancing Animal 2022 Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) 2022 Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais 2021 Zirkus, Richter’s Tango 2021 Orphea 2021 The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 2020 Werewolves Playoffs 2020 Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution 2020 Trump State Visit 2020 Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens 2019 Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt 2019 We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib 2018 The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises 2018 Happy Lamento 2018 Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt 2018 Zirkus im Krieg 2018 Dancing with Pictures 2017 Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film 2017 Parsifal verlernen 2017 Der Gärtner von Nürnberg 2017 Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? 2015 Fassbinder's Funeral 2015 Light Veins 2014 Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg 2014 Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima 2014 Theorie der Erzählung 2013 Rigor Was His Mark of Quality 2012 Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand 2012 Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge 2012 Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen 2011 Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse 2010 Der Deutschland-Komplex 2009 Früchte des Vertrauens 2009 News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital 2008 Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" 2008 Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie 2008 Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes 2007 Das Phänomen der Oper 2007 The Magic of the Darkened Soul 2007 Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! 2007 The Poetic Power of Theory 2007 Multiple Images for Five Projectors 2007 Sad News 2006 Das gab’s nur einmal 2006 La Habanera 2006 Storm Over Egypt 2006 The Deadly Triangle 2006 The Trickiness of Peace Treaties 2006 Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde 2006 Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer 2006 Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld 2006 La Paloma 2006 16 Minute-films 2006 Sam Remembers Papa Kong 2006 The Officer as a Philosopher 2005 A Woman Like a Volcano 2003 The Flexible Entrepreneur 2001 Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard 2001 Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard 2000 The Execution of an Elephant 2000 He Who Hopes, Dies Singing 1999 Spaceflight as an Internal Experience 1999 Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome 1998 Neonröhren des Himmels 1998 100 Years of the German Rhine 1998 Der schwedische Mozart 1998 For Vertov 1998 An Experiment in Love 1998 Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds 1998 Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt 1998 The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot 1997 The Day Is Nigh 1997 Chicago in Time Lapse 1996 Engine Cough 1996 Heiner Müller in Time Flight 1996 He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded 1996 Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management 1996 Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” 1995 Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day 1995 My Rendezvous with Death 1995 The Voice of the Playwright 1995 On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses 1995 Omnivore Democracy 1995 Under the Sign of Mars 1994 The World is Not Bad, but Full 1994 I Owe the World a Dead Person 1994 Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish 1993 Mind, Power, Castration 1993 Anti-Opera 1993 The Last of the Mohicans 1993 Plowshare of Evil 1993 The Death of Seneca 1993 Frederick of Prussia 1992 Every Frozen Structure has its Academy 1991 Rome, as Far Away as the Moon 1991 “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” 1991 Heiner Müller on Legal Questions 1990 Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by 1990 Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge 1990 Wild Night with Moon 1990 Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath 1989 Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday 1989 Paper Tiger Television, New York 1989 The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman 1988 Antiques of Advertising 1988 Madame Butterfly Waits 1988 Miscellaneous News 1986 The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time 1985 The Power of Emotion 1983 Biermann-Film 1983 Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour 1983 War and Peace 1982 The Candidate 1980 The Patriotic Woman 1979 Germany in Autumn 1978 People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary 1977 Nachrichten von den Staufern 1977 Strongman Ferdinand 1976 In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death 1974 Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave 1973 Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 1973 Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet 1972 The Big Mess 1971 The Indomitable Leni Peickert 1970 A Doctor From Haberstadt 1970 Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed 1968 E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher 1968 Yesterday Girl 1967 Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt 1967 News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival 1966 A Poker Game 1966 Policeman's Lot 1965 Protocol of a Revolution 1963 Lehrer im Wandel 1963 Brutality in Stone 1961 Rennen 1961 Thema Amore 1961 Rennfahrer 1961
Cinematography
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod 2026 Primitive Diversity 2025
Acting
The Klimperclown Self 2025 Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors Self 2022 Wim Wenders, Desperado Self (archive footage) 2020 Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias Self 2018 An Opera of the World Himself 2017 Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures Self 2017 On the Holy Spirit 2016 Nuits transparentes 2011 Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers Self (uncredited) 2008 Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang Self 2002 The Night of the Filmmakers Self 1995 SnowwhiteRosered Self 1991 The Heart and the Legs Self 1989 Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen Self 1989 Reform Circus 1970 Die Erben von Papas Kino 1968 ...Geist und ein wenig Glück Himself 1965
Other Credits
The Leaks of Venice Producer 2020 The Journey to Vienna Writer 1973 Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) Producer 1970 The Indian Tomb Assistant Director 1959 The Tiger of Eschnapur Assistant Director 1959
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