Alexander Kluge
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
Feb 14, 1932 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Halberstadt, Germany
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.
Known For
| 2025 | The KlimperclownSelf | |
| 2022 | Come With Me to the Cinema – The GregorsSelf | |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders, DesperadoSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other UtopiasSelf | |
| 2017 | Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmSelf | |
| 2017 | Dancing with PicturesHimself | |
| 2017 | An Opera of the WorldHimself | |
| 2017 | Werner Nekes - Life Between the PicturesSelf | |
| 2016 | On the Holy Spirit | |
| 2013 | Theorie der ErzählungHimself | |
| 2012 | PrechtSelf | |
| 2011 | Nuits transparentes | |
| 2010 | Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseSelf | |
| 2008 | Counter Shot: Departure of the FilmmakersSelf (uncredited) | |
| 2007 | Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsSelf | |
| 2003 | druckfrischself | |
| 2002 | Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen AusgangSelf | |
| 2000 | Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard | |
| 2000 | Literatur im Foyerhimself | |
| 1998 | Alpha ForumSelf | |
| 1998 | LebensläufeSelf | |
| 1995 | The Night of the FilmmakersSelf | |
| 1995 | Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” | |
| 1995 | Kulturzeitself | |
| 1991 | SnowwhiteRoseredSelf | |
| 1989 | The Heart and the LegsSelf | |
| 1989 | Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschenSelf | |
| 1970 | Reform Circus | |
| 1968 | Die Erben von Papas Kino | |
| 1965 | ...Geist und ein wenig GlückHimself | |
| 1964 | Grimme AwardSelf | |
| 1951 | German Film AwardSelf | |
| 1948 | BambiSelf | |
| - | Finite and Infinite GamesHimself |
| 2026 | Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929Producer | |
| 2025 | Primitive DiversityProducer | |
| 2023 | Lied der MedeaProducer | |
| 2021 | OrpheaProducer | |
| 2020 | The Leaks of VeniceProducer | |
| 2020 | Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen RevolutionProducer | |
| 2020 | Trump State VisitProducer | |
| 2019 | Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum ErdmittelpunktProducer | |
| 2018 | Der Zirkus kommt in die StadtProducer | |
| 2018 | Zirkus im KriegProducer | |
| 2017 | Der Gärtner von NürnbergProducer | |
| 2015 | Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?Producer | |
| 1998 | Five Hours Parsifal in 90 SecondsProducer | |
| 1970 | Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)Producer | |
| 1968 | Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedProducer | |
| 1967 | Yesterday GirlProducer | |
| 1961 | Brutality in StoneProducer | |
| 1961 | RennfahrerProducer |
| 2026 | Die Liebe stört der kalte TodDirector | |
| 2026 | Utopie der OperDirector | |
| 2026 | Heterotopie der OperDirector | |
| 2026 | Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929Director | |
| 2025 | Primitive DiversityDirector | |
| 2024 | Cosmic MiniaturesDirector | |
| 2024 | Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)Director | |
| 2024 | Planetary ManDirector | |
| 2024 | Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and SociologistDirector | |
| 2024 | An Opera That Sparked a RevolutionDirector | |
| 2024 | Attack on a Thick Glass DoorDirector | |
| 2024 | String Cinema – Mathematical Minute OperaDirector | |
| 2024 | Happy Root From Non-IdentityDirector | |
| 2024 | Beginnings of Film ArtDirector | |
| 2023 | Lied der MedeaDirector | |
| 2022 | In the Rock of SignsDirector | |
| 2022 | Reason is a Balancing AnimalDirector | |
| 2022 | Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)Director | |
| 2021 | Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os CanibaisDirector | |
| 2021 | Zirkus, Richter’s TangoDirector | |
| 2021 | OrpheaDirector | |
| 2020 | The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941Director | |
| 2020 | Werewolves PlayoffsDirector | |
| 2020 | Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen RevolutionDirector | |
| 2020 | Trump State VisitDirector | |
| 2019 | Veränderung ist das Salz des VergnügensDirector | |
| 2019 | Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum ErdmittelpunktDirector | |
| 2018 | The Revolution is a Creature Full of SurprisesDirector | |
| 2018 | We Philosophers from Eve’s RibDirector | |
| 2018 | Happy LamentoDirector | |
| 2018 | Der Zirkus kommt in die StadtDirector | |
| 2018 | Zirkus im KriegDirector | |
| 2017 | Dancing with PicturesDirector | |
| 2017 | Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmDirector | |
| 2017 | Parsifal verlernenDirector | |
| 2017 | Der Gärtner von NürnbergDirector | |
| 2015 | Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?Director | |
| 2015 | Fassbinder's FuneralDirector | |
| 2014 | Light VeinsDirector | |
| 2014 | Nachrichten vom Großen KriegDirector | |
| 2014 | Moby Dick – Godzilla – FukushimaDirector | |
| 2013 | Theorie der ErzählungDirector | |
| 2012 | Rigor Was His Mark of QualityDirector | |
| 2012 | Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer HandDirector | |
| 2012 | Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander KlugeDirector | |
| 2011 | Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachenDirector | |
| 2010 | Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseDirector | |
| 2009 | Der Deutschland-KomplexDirector | |
| 2009 | Früchte des VertrauensDirector | |
| 2008 | News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The CapitalDirector | |
| 2008 | Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der MaterieDirector | |
| 2008 | Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"Director | |
| 2007 | Das Phänomen der OperDirector | |
| 2007 | The Poetic Power of TheoryDirector | |
| 2007 | Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!Director | |
| 2007 | Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & FakesDirector | |
| 2007 | The Magic of the Darkened SoulDirector | |
| 2007 | Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsDirector | |
| 2006 | Sad NewsDirector | |
| 2006 | Das gab’s nur einmalDirector | |
| 2006 | La HabaneraDirector | |
| 2006 | Storm Over EgyptDirector | |
| 2006 | The Deadly TriangleDirector | |
| 2006 | The Trickiness of Peace TreatiesDirector | |
| 2006 | Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein DampferDirector | |
| 2006 | Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten NachtstundeDirector | |
| 2006 | Die Frau auf dem SchlachtfeldDirector | |
| 2006 | La PalomaDirector | |
| 2006 | 16 Minute-filmsDirector | |
| 2006 | Sam Remembers Papa KongDirector | |
| 2005 | The Officer as a PhilosopherDirector | |
| 2003 | A Woman Like a VolcanoDirector | |
| 2001 | The Flexible EntrepreneurDirector | |
| 2001 | Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc GodardDirector | |
| 2000 | Ich war Hitlers BodyguardDirector | |
| 2000 | The Execution of an ElephantDirector | |
| 1999 | He Who Hopes, Dies SingingDirector | |
| 1999 | Spaceflight as an Internal ExperienceDirector | |
| 1998 | Learning Processes with a Deadly OutcomeDirector | |
| 1998 | Neonröhren des HimmelsDirector | |
| 1998 | 100 Years of the German RhineDirector | |
| 1998 | Der schwedische MozartDirector | |
| 1998 | For VertovDirector | |
| 1998 | An Experiment in LoveDirector | |
| 1998 | Five Hours Parsifal in 90 SecondsDirector | |
| 1998 | Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewaltDirector | |
| 1997 | The Poet as Metaphor SlingshotDirector | |
| 1997 | The Day Is NighDirector | |
| 1996 | Chicago in Time LapseDirector | |
| 1996 | Engine CoughDirector | |
| 1996 | Heiner Müller in Time FlightDirector | |
| 1996 | He Who Smokes Looks Cold-BloodedDirector | |
| 1996 | Epic Theater & Post-heroic ManagementDirector | |
| 1995 | Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”Director | |
| 1995 | My Rendezvous with DeathDirector | |
| 1995 | Queen of Hearts on Judgment DayDirector | |
| 1995 | Omnivore DemocracyDirector | |
| 1995 | The Voice of the PlaywrightDirector | |
| 1995 | On the Way to a Theater of DarknessesDirector | |
| 1994 | Under the Sign of MarsDirector | |
| 1994 | The World is Not Bad, but FullDirector | |
| 1994 | I Owe the World a Dead PersonDirector | |
| 1993 | Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small FishDirector | |
| 1993 | Mind, Power, CastrationDirector | |
| 1993 | The Last of the MohicansDirector | |
| 1993 | Anti-OperaDirector | |
| 1993 | Plowshare of EvilDirector | |
| 1993 | The Death of SenecaDirector | |
| 1992 | Frederick of PrussiaDirector | |
| 1991 | Rome, as Far Away as the MoonDirector | |
| 1991 | “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”Director | |
| 1991 | Every Frozen Structure has its AcademyDirector | |
| 1990 | Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing byDirector | |
| 1990 | Heiner Müller on Legal QuestionsDirector | |
| 1990 | Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre AnfängeDirector | |
| 1990 | Wild Night with MoonDirector | |
| 1989 | Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th BirthdayDirector | |
| 1989 | Conversation with Heiner Müller in GarathDirector | |
| 1989 | Paper Tiger Television, New YorkDirector | |
| 1988 | The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White WomanDirector | |
| 1988 | Antiques of AdvertisingDirector | |
| 1988 | Madame Butterfly WaitsDirector | |
| 1986 | Miscellaneous NewsDirector | |
| 1985 | The Assault of the Present on the Rest of TimeDirector | |
| 1983 | The Power of EmotionDirector | |
| 1983 | Biermann-FilmDirector | |
| 1983 | Looking for a Practical and Realistic BehaviourDirector | |
| 1982 | War and PeaceDirector | |
| 1980 | The CandidateDirector | |
| 1979 | The Patriotic WomanDirector | |
| 1978 | Germany in AutumnDirector | |
| 1977 | People Preparing the Staufer AnniversaryDirector | |
| 1977 | Nachrichten von den StaufernDirector | |
| 1976 | Strongman FerdinandDirector | |
| 1974 | In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to DeathDirector | |
| 1973 | Part-Time Work of a Domestic SlaveDirector | |
| 1973 | Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908Director | |
| 1972 | Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th FleetDirector | |
| 1971 | The Big MessDirector | |
| 1970 | The Indomitable Leni PeickertDirector | |
| 1970 | A Doctor From HaberstadtDirector | |
| 1968 | Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedDirector | |
| 1968 | E. A. Winterstein, Fire ExtinguisherDirector | |
| 1967 | Yesterday GirlDirector | |
| 1967 | Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmtDirector | |
| 1966 | News from the 1966 Venice Film FestivalDirector | |
| 1966 | A Poker GameDirector | |
| 1965 | Policeman's LotDirector | |
| 1963 | Protocol of a RevolutionDirector | |
| 1963 | Lehrer im WandelDirector | |
| 1961 | Brutality in StoneDirector | |
| 1961 | RennenDirector | |
| 1961 | Thema AmoreDirector | |
| 1961 | RennfahrerDirector | |
| 1959 | The Indian TombAssistant Director | |
| 1959 | The Tiger of EschnapurAssistant Director | |
| - | At Work in the Ruins of MoralityDirector | |
| - | Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues EndeDirector | |
| - | Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?Director | |
| - | Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 BeispieleDirector | |
| - | Spinoza und die Modi GottesDirector | |
| - | Why Are You Crying, Antonio?Director |
| 2026 | Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929Screenplay | |
| 2025 | Primitive DiversityWriter | |
| 2023 | Lied der MedeaScreenplay | |
| 2021 | OrpheaWriter | |
| 2020 | Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen RevolutionWriter | |
| 2020 | Trump State VisitWriter | |
| 2019 | Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum ErdmittelpunktScreenplay | |
| 2018 | Happy LamentoScreenplay | |
| 2018 | Der Zirkus kommt in die StadtWriter | |
| 2018 | Zirkus im KriegWriter | |
| 2017 | Der Gärtner von NürnbergScreenplay | |
| 2015 | Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?Screenplay | |
| 2012 | Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer HandWriter | |
| 2006 | Die Frau auf dem SchlachtfeldWriter | |
| 1990 | Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre AnfängeWriter | |
| 1986 | Miscellaneous NewsWriter | |
| 1985 | The Assault of the Present on the Rest of TimeWriter | |
| 1983 | Looking for a Practical and Realistic BehaviourWriter | |
| 1983 | The Power of EmotionWriter | |
| 1982 | War and PeaceWriter | |
| 1980 | The CandidateWriter | |
| 1979 | The Patriotic WomanWriter | |
| 1978 | Germany in AutumnScreenplay | |
| 1977 | People Preparing the Staufer AnniversaryWriter | |
| 1977 | Nachrichten von den StaufernWriter | |
| 1976 | Strongman FerdinandWriter | |
| 1974 | In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to DeathWriter | |
| 1973 | The Journey to ViennaWriter | |
| 1973 | Part-Time Work of a Domestic SlaveWriter | |
| 1973 | Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908Writer | |
| 1972 | Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th FleetWriter | |
| 1971 | The Big MessWriter | |
| 1970 | The Indomitable Leni PeickertWriter | |
| 1970 | A Doctor From HaberstadtWriter | |
| 1968 | Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedWriter | |
| 1968 | E. A. Winterstein, Fire ExtinguisherWriter | |
| 1967 | Yesterday GirlWriter | |
| 1967 | Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmtWriter | |
| 1967 | Yesterday GirlShort Story | |
| 1965 | Policeman's LotWriter | |
| 1963 | Lehrer im WandelWriter | |
| 1963 | Protocol of a RevolutionWriter | |
| 1961 | Brutality in StoneWriter | |
| 1961 | Thema AmoreWriter |