Known For
Directing
Known Credits
15
Gender
Male
Birthday
June 5, 1945 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Bittkau, Germany
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.
| 2016 | Britain’s Glory...Editor | |
| 2015 | The Light of the World...Editor | |
| 2014 | Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Editor | |
| 2012 | Syrakus...Editor | |
| 2010 | Studies for the Decay of the West...Editor | |
| 2003 | Sulla...Editor | |
| 1970 | Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Editor |
| 2016 | Britain’s Glory...Director of Photography | |
| 2015 | The Light of the World...Director of Photography | |
| 2014 | Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Director of Photography | |
| 2012 | Syrakus...Director of Photography | |
| 2010 | Studies for the Decay of the West...Director of Photography | |
| 2005 | D’Annunzio’s Cave...Director of Photography | |
| 2003 | Sulla...Director of Photography | |
| 1977 | Der Ort der Handlung...Director of Photography | |
| 1973 | The Birth of a Nation...Director of Photography | |
| 1969 | Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers...Director of Photography |
| 2015 | The Light of the World...Writer | |
| 2014 | Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Writer | |
| 2012 | Syrakus...Writer | |
| 2010 | Studies for the Decay of the West...Writer | |
| 2003 | Sulla...Writer | |
| 1977 | Der Ort der Handlung...Writer | |
| 1974 | The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson...Writer | |
| 1973 | The Birth of a Nation...Writer | |
| 1971 | Prince and Delusion...Writer | |
| 1970 | Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Writer | |
| 1969 | Thorium 232...Writer | |
| 1968 | Null-Null-Zero...Writer |
| 2015 | The Light of the World...Producer | |
| 2014 | Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)...Producer | |
| 1977 | Der Ort der Handlung...Producer | |
| 1970 | Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Producer |
| 2010 | Studies for the Decay of the West...Original Music Composer | |
| 1970 | Programmhinweise...Sound | |
| 1969 | Kubla Khan...Sound |
| 1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser...Second Unit | |
| 1970 | Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)...Cinematography |
| 2017 | Werner Nekes - Life Between the Picturesas Self | |
| 1999 | The Critical Massas Himself | |
| 1991 | The Holy Bunchas | |
| 1988 | Burning Bedsas | |
| 1985 | Home Movies 1971-81as | |
| 1983 | Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnisas (cameo) | |
| 1978 | Four Shadowsas | |
| 1974 | The Fantastic World of Matthew Madsonas | |
| 1974 | Diwanas | |
| 1973 | The Birth of a Nationas Narrator | |
| 1969 | Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgersas | |
| 1968 | A Crowd in the Faceas | |
| 1968 | Im KZas | |
| 1968 | Null-Null-Zeroas | |
| 1966 | One Brachet Close Brachetas |