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Klaus Wyborny

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
15

Gender
Male

Birthday
June 5, 1945 (81 years old)

Place of Birth
Bittkau, Germany

Klaus Wyborny

Biography

Klaus Wyborny (b.June 5, 1945 in Bittkau bei Magdeburg; lives and works in Hamburg) is a German filmmaker, producer, film director, actor, cameraman and screenwriter, known for his experimental films.

Klaus Wyborny studied from 1963 to 1970 Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and the Yeshiva University in New York City.

Wyborny was co-founder in 1968, with Hellmuth Costard, Thomas Struck, Werner Nekes, Helmut Herbst, Werner Grassmann, and others, of the Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative, which took the New American Cinema as an example and would develop an European version of American underground cinema. He worked for the literary journals BOA VISTA and Henry, and was co-founder of the 'Hamburger Filmgespräche'.

Klaus Wyborny participated with others in the Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with Das abenteuerliche, aber glücklose Leben des William Parmagino, Dallas Texas - After the Goldrush, Chimney Piece and A Crowd in the Face, and Percy McPhee in the section Film review: New European Cinema on the Documenta 6 (1977). Wyborny participated in 1975, 1980-1982, 1986, 1992 and 1994 at the International Forum of New Cinema in Berlin. He was also several times (2002, 2005, 2010) represented at the Viennale Festival in Vienna. In 2003 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.

Known For

Directing

2016Britain’s Glory...Director
2015The Light of the World...Director
2014Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Director
2012Syrakus...Director
2010Studies for the Decay of the West...Director
2010Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal...Director
2009Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter...Director
2009The Last Year...Director
2006Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven...Director
2005Histoire du cinema...Director
2004Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)...Director
2003Sulla...Director
1995The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice...Director
1994Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld...Director
1994From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)...Director
1993The Open Universe...Director
1992Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)...Director
1988Out of New York...Director
1985At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)...Director
1985Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)...Director
1985Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film...Director
19822084...Director
1981The Blanket of Life...Director
19813 Miniatures after Melanie Klein...Director
1981Richard...Director
1980The Scenic Sacrifice...Director
1979Potpourri from "East of No West"...Director
1978Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film...Director
1977Valiantly Towards the Waves...Director
1977Der Ort der Handlung...Director
19776 Small Pieces of Film...Director
1976Syntax...Director
1976Bartleby...Director
1976Housefilm...Director
1975Pictures of the Lost Word...Director
1975Flight from SF to NYC...Director
1975Window Film...Director
1974The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty...Director
1974Elementary Filmhistory...Director
1973The Birth of a Nation...Director
19724 Rural Sketches...Director
1971Chimney Piece...Director
1971Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush...Director
1970Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Director
1970Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik...Director
1969The Haunted Screen...Director
1969Thorium 232...Director
1969The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino...Director
1969The Greatest Crime of All Time...Director
1968Up to the Stars...Director
1968Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John...Director
1968A Crowd in the Face...Director
1968Im KZ...Director
1968Home Sweet Home...Director
1968Der Markt von Ringköbing...Director
1968Null-Null-Zero...Assistant Director
1967Going to Stuttgart...Director

Editing

2016Britain’s Glory...Editor
2015The Light of the World...Editor
2014Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Editor
2012Syrakus...Editor
2010Studies for the Decay of the West...Editor
2003Sulla...Editor
1970Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Editor

Camera

2016Britain’s Glory...Director of Photography
2015The Light of the World...Director of Photography
2014Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Director of Photography
2012Syrakus...Director of Photography
2010Studies for the Decay of the West...Director of Photography
2005D’Annunzio’s Cave...Director of Photography
2003Sulla...Director of Photography
1977Der Ort der Handlung...Director of Photography
1973The Birth of a Nation...Director of Photography
1969Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers...Director of Photography

Writing

2015The Light of the World...Writer
2014Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Writer
2012Syrakus...Writer
2010Studies for the Decay of the West...Writer
2003Sulla...Writer
1977Der Ort der Handlung...Writer
1974The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson...Writer
1973The Birth of a Nation...Writer
1971Prince and Delusion...Writer
1970Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Writer
1969Thorium 232...Writer
1968Null-Null-Zero...Writer

Production

2015The Light of the World...Producer
2014Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Producer
1977Der Ort der Handlung...Producer
1970Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Producer

Sound

2010Studies for the Decay of the West...Original Music Composer
1970Programmhinweise...Sound
1969Kubla Khan...Sound

Crew

1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser...Second Unit
1970Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Cinematography

Acting

2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the Picturesas Self
1999The Critical Massas Himself
1991The Holy Bunchas
1988Burning Bedsas
1985Home Movies 1971-81as
1983Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnisas (cameo)
1978Four Shadowsas
1974The Fantastic World of Matthew Madsonas
1974Diwanas
1973The Birth of a Nationas Narrator
1969Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgersas
1968A Crowd in the Faceas
1968Im KZas
1968Null-Null-Zeroas
1966One Brachet Close Brachetas