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Alexander Kluge

Feb 14, 1932 - Halberstadt-Germany

Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) is 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.

Known For Credits

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie	2008	Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers	Self (uncredited)
Movie	1995	The Night of the Filmmakers	Self
Movie	2022	Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors	Self
Movie	N/A	Finite and Infinite Games	Himself
Movie	1991	SnowwhiteRosered	Self
Movie	1989	The Heart and the Legs	Self
Movie	2010	Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse	Self
Movie	1968	Die Erben von Papas Kino
Movie	2000	Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
Movie	2002	Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang	Self
Movie	2016	On the Holy Spirit
Movie	2017	Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film	Self
Movie	2007	Multiple Images for Five Projectors	Self
Movie	2017	Dancing with Pictures	Himself
Movie	2017	An Opera of the World	Himself
Movie	2013	Theorie der Erzählung	Himself
Movie	2011	Nuits transparentes
Movie	1965	...Geist und ein wenig Glück	Himself
Movie	2018	Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias	Self
Movie	2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self (archive footage)
Movie	2017	Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern	Self
Movie	1995	Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
Movie	1970	Reform Circus
Movie	1989	Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen	Self
TV Show	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	3
TV Show	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	1
TV Show	1964	Grimme Awards Ceremony	Self	3
TV Show	1998	Alpha Forum	Self	1
TV Show	2000	Literatur im Foyer	himself	1
TV Show	1998	Lebensläufe	Self	1
TV Show	2003	druckfrisch	self	1
TV Show	1995	Kulturzeit	self	1
TV Show	2012	Precht	Self	1

Crew

Media
Movie	1978	Germany in Autumn	Director	Directing
Movie	1978	Germany in Autumn	Screenplay	Writing
Movie	1973	Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave	Director	Directing
Movie	1967	Yesterday Girl	Director	Directing
Movie	1971	The Big Mess	Writer	Writing
Movie	1971	The Big Mess	Director	Directing
Movie	2008	Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital	Director	Directing
Movie	1974	In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death	Director	Directing
Movie	1979	The Patriotic Woman	Writer	Writing
Movie	1979	The Patriotic Woman	Director	Directing
Movie	1968	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	Brutality in Stone	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	Brutality in Stone	Writer	Writing
Movie	1968	E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher	Director	Directing
Movie	1983	The Power of Emotion	Director	Directing
Movie	1985	The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time	Director	Directing
Movie	1985	The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time	Writer	Writing
Movie	1976	Strongman Ferdinand	Director	Directing
Movie	1996	Chicago in Time Lapse	Director	Directing
Movie	1995	Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	Sad News	Director	Directing
Movie	1972	Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet	Director	Directing
Movie	1972	Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet	Writer	Writing
Movie	1998	Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Die Reise nach Wien	Writer	Writing
Movie	1996	Engine Cough	Director	Directing
Movie	1986	Miscellaneous News	Director	Directing
Movie	2008	Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie	Director	Directing
Movie	2008	Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	Das gab’s nur einmal	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	La Habanera	Director	Directing
Movie	1983	Biermann-Film	Director	Directing
Movie	1998	Neonröhren des Himmels	Director	Directing
Movie	1998	100 Years of the German Rhine	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Protocol of a Revolution	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Lehrer im Wandel	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Lehrer im Wandel	Writer	Writing
Movie	1967	Yesterday Girl	Writer	Writing
Movie	1973	Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave	Writer	Writing
Movie	1993	Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	Storm Over Egypt	Director	Directing
Movie	1968	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Writer	Writing
Movie	1970	The Indomitable Leni Peickert	Director	Directing
Movie	1970	The Indomitable Leni Peickert	Writer	Writing
Movie	2006	The Deadly Triangle	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	The Trickiness of Peace Treaties	Director	Directing
Movie	1986	Miscellaneous News	Writer	Writing
Movie	1967	Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908	Writer	Writing
Movie	1967	Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt	Writer	Writing
Movie	1970	A Doctor From Haberstadt	Writer	Writing
Movie	1970	A Doctor From Haberstadt	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	Rennen	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Protocol of a Revolution	Writer	Writing
Movie	1974	In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death	Writer	Writing
Movie	1965	Policeman's Lot	Director	Directing
Movie	1965	Policeman's Lot	Writer	Writing
Movie	1976	Strongman Ferdinand	Writer	Writing
Movie	1980	The Candidate	Writer	Writing
Movie	1980	The Candidate	Director	Directing
Movie	1982	Krieg und Frieden	Writer	Writing
Movie	1982	Krieg und Frieden	Director	Directing
Movie	1983	Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour	Director	Directing
Movie	1983	Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour	Writer	Writing
Movie	1983	The Power of Emotion	Writer	Writing
Movie	1968	E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher	Writer	Writing
Movie	2005	The Officer as a Philosopher	Director	Directing
Movie	2001	The Flexible Entrepreneur	Director	Directing
Movie	2003	A Woman Like a Volcano	Director	Directing
Movie	1999	He Who Hopes, Dies Singing	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer	Director	Directing
Movie	1998	Der schwedische Mozart	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde	Director	Directing
Movie	1989	Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday	Director	Directing
Movie	1989	Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath	Director	Directing
Movie	1990	Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	At Work in the Ruins of Morality	Director	Directing
Movie	1991	Rome, as Far Away as the Moon	Director	Directing
Movie	1990	Heiner Müller on Legal Questions	Director	Directing
Movie	1991	“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”	Director	Directing
Movie	1991	Every Frozen Structure has its Academy	Director	Directing
Movie	1992	Frederick of Prussia	Director	Directing
Movie	1993	Mind, Power, Castration	Director	Directing
Movie	2012	Rigor Was His Mark of Quality	Director	Directing
Movie	1993	The Last of the Mohicans	Director	Directing
Movie	1996	Heiner Müller in Time Flight	Director	Directing
Movie	1997	The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot	Director	Directing
Movie	1996	He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded	Director	Directing
Movie	1993	Anti-Opera	Director	Directing
Movie	1994	Under the Sign of Mars	Director	Directing
Movie	1995	My Rendezvous with Death	Director	Directing
Movie	1993	Plowshare of Evil	Director	Directing
Movie	1995	Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day	Director	Directing
Movie	1993	The Death of Seneca	Director	Directing
Movie	1995	Omnivore Democracy	Director	Directing
Movie	1994	The World is Not Bad, but Full	Director	Directing
Movie	1996	Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management	Director	Directing
Movie	1995	The Voice of the Playwright	Director	Directing
Movie	1994	I Owe the World a Dead Person	Director	Directing
Movie	1995	On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses	Director	Directing
Movie	1968	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Producer	Production
Movie	2024	Cosmic Miniatures	Director	Directing
Movie	1967	Yesterday Girl	Producer	Production
Movie	2000	Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard	Director	Directing
Movie	1999	Spaceflight as an Internal Experience	Director	Directing
Movie	1997	The Day Is Nigh	Director	Directing
Movie	1990	Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge	Director	Directing
Movie	2000	The Execution of an Elephant	Director	Directing
Movie	1977	People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary	Director	Directing
Movie	1998	For Vertov	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld	Writer	Writing
Movie	2006	Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende	Director	Directing
Movie	1977	People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary	Writer	Writing
Movie	1977	Nachrichten von den Staufern	Writer	Writing
Movie	1977	Nachrichten von den Staufern	Director	Directing
Movie	1998	An Experiment in Love	Director	Directing
Movie	1988	The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman	Director	Directing
Movie	2017	Dancing with Pictures	Director	Directing
Movie	2013	Theorie der Erzählung	Director	Directing
Movie	2007	Das Phänomen der Oper	Director	Directing
Movie	2007	The Poetic Power of Theory	Director	Directing
Movie	2007	Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!	Director	Directing
Movie	2007	Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes	Director	Directing
Movie	2007	The Magic of the Darkened Soul	Director	Directing
Movie	2021	Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais	Director	Directing
Movie	1970	Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)	Producer	Production
Movie	2024	Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)	Director	Directing
Movie	2017	Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film	Director	Directing
Movie	2024	Planetary Man	Director	Directing
Movie	2022	In the Rock of Signs	Director	Directing
Movie	2021	Zirkus, Richter’s Tango	Director	Directing
Movie	2022	Reason is a Balancing Animal	Director	Directing
Movie	2018	The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises	Director	Directing
Movie	2024	Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist	Director	Directing
Movie	2020	The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941	Director	Directing
Movie	2024	An Opera That Sparked a Revolution	Director	Directing
Movie	2018	We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib	Director	Directing
Movie	2022	Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)	Director	Directing
Movie	2024	Attack on a Thick Glass Door	Director	Directing
Movie	2024	String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera	Director	Directing
Movie	2024	Happy Root From Non-Identity	Director	Directing
Movie	2014	Light Veins	Director	Directing
Movie	1989	Paper Tiger Television, New York	Director	Directing
Movie	2007	Multiple Images for Five Projectors	Director	Directing
Movie	2024	Beginnings of Film Art	Director	Directing
Movie	1967	Yesterday Girl	Short Story	Writing
Movie	2018	Happy Lamento	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?	Director	Directing
Movie	2009	Der Deutschland-Komplex	Director	Directing
Movie	2009	Früchte des Vertrauens	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	La Paloma	Director	Directing
Movie	1990	Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge	Writer	Writing
Movie	2018	Happy Lamento	Screenplay	Writing
Movie	1966	News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival	Director	Directing
Movie	2017	Parsifal verlernen	Director	Directing
Movie	2012	Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand	Director	Directing
Movie	2012	Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand	Writer	Writing
Movie	2014	Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg	Director	Directing
Movie	2001	Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard	Director	Directing
Movie	2006	16 Minute-films	Director	Directing
Movie	2019	Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens	Director	Directing
Movie	2021	Orphea	Director	Directing
Movie	2014	Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima	Director	Directing
Movie	2011	Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen	Director	Directing
Movie	1959	The Indian Tomb	Assistant Director	Directing
Movie	1966	A Poker Game	Editor	Editing
Movie	1966	A Poker Game	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	Thema Amore	Director	Directing
Movie	1959	The Tiger of Eschnapur	Assistant Director	Directing
Movie	1961	Thema Amore	Writer	Writing
Movie	1961	Brutality in Stone	Producer	Production
Movie	1961	Rennfahrer	Producer	Production
Movie	1961	Rennfahrer	Director	Directing
Movie	2021	Orphea	Producer	Production
Movie	2021	Orphea	Writer	Writing
Movie	2006	Sam Remembers Papa Kong	Director	Directing
Movie	1998	Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds	Director	Directing
Movie	1998	Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds	Producer	Production
Movie	2020	The Leaks of Venice	Producer	Production
Movie	2012	Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge	Director	Directing
Movie	2010	Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse	Director	Directing
Movie	2020	Werewolves Playoffs	Director	Directing
Movie	2025	Primitive Diversity	Director	Directing
Movie	2025	Primitive Diversity	Writer	Writing