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Alexander Kluge

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
36

Gender
Male

Birthday
February 14, 1932 (94 years old)

Place of Birth
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.

Known For

Directing

2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929...Director
2026Heterotopie der Oper...Director
2026Utopie der Oper...Director
2026Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod...Director
2025Primitive Diversity...Director
2024Beginnings of Film Art...Director
2024An Opera That Sparked a Revolution...Director
2024Attack on a Thick Glass Door...Director
2024Planetary Man...Director
2024Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)...Director
2024String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera...Director
2024Happy Root From Non-Identity...Director
2024Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist...Director
2024Cosmic Miniatures...Director
2023Lied der Medea...Director
2022Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)...Director
2022In the Rock of Signs...Director
2021Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais...Director
2021Orphea...Director
2021Zirkus, Richter’s Tango...Director
2020Werewolves Playoffs...Director
2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution...Director
2020Trump State Visit...Director
2020The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941...Director
2019Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens...Director
2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt...Director
2018Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt...Director
2018Happy Lamento...Director
2018The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises...Director
2018We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib...Director
2018Zirkus im Krieg...Director
2017Parsifal verlernen...Director
2017Dancing with Pictures...Director
2017Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende...Director
2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film...Director
2017Reason is a Balancing Animal...Director
2017Der Gärtner von Nürnberg...Director
2015Fassbinder's Funeral...Director
2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?...Director
2014Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg...Director
2014Light Veins...Director
2014Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima...Director
2013Theorie der Erzählung...Director
2012Rigor Was His Mark of Quality...Director
2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand...Director
2012Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge...Director
2011Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen...Director
2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse...Director
2009Früchte des Vertrauens...Director
2009Der Deutschland-Komplex...Director
2008Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"...Director
2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital...Director
2008Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie...Director
2007Multiple Images for Five Projectors...Director
2007Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!...Director
2007Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes...Director
2007The Magic of the Darkened Soul...Director
2007The Poetic Power of Theory...Director
2007Das Phänomen der Oper...Director
200616 Minute-films...Director
2006Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld...Director
2006La Paloma...Director
2006Sam Remembers Papa Kong...Director
2006Sad News...Director
2006Das gab’s nur einmal...Director
2006La Habanera...Director
2006Storm Over Egypt...Director
2006The Trickiness of Peace Treaties...Director
2006The Deadly Triangle...Director
2006From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards...Director
2006Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer...Director
2005The Officer as a Philosopher...Director
2003A Woman Like a Volcano...Director
2001The Flexible Entrepreneur...Director
2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!...Director
2000The Execution of an Elephant...Director
2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard...Director
1999Spaceflight as an Internal Experience...Director
1999He Who Hopes, Dies Singing...Director
1998Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt...Director
1998An Experiment in Love...Director
1998For Vertov...Director
1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds...Director
1998Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome...Director
1998Neonröhren des Himmels...Director
1998100 Years of the German Rhine...Director
1998Der schwedische Mozart...Director
1997The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot...Director
1997The Day Is Nigh...Director
1996Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management...Director
1996Heiner Müller in Time Flight...Director
1996He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded...Director
1996Engine Cough...Director
1996Chicago in Time Lapse...Director
1995Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day...Director
1995On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses...Director
1995The Voice of the Playwright...Director
1995Omnivore Democracy...Director
1995My Rendezvous with Death...Director
1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”...Director
1994The World is Not Bad, but Full...Director
1994I Owe the World a Dead Person...Director
1994Under the Sign of Mars...Director
1993Anti-Opera...Director
1993The Death of Seneca...Director
1993Plowshare of Evil...Director
1993Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish...Director
1993The Last of the Mohicans...Director
1993Mind, Power, Castration...Director
1992Frederick of Prussia...Director
1991“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”...Director
1991Every Frozen Structure has its Academy...Director
1991Rome, as Far Away as the Moon...Director
1990Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge...Director
1990Heiner Müller on Legal Questions...Director
1990Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by...Director
1990Wild Night with Moon...Director
1989Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath...Director
1989Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday...Director
1989Paper Tiger Television, New York...Director
1988The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman...Director
1988Antiques of Advertising...Director
1988Madame Butterfly Waits...Director
1988Why Are You Crying, Antonio?...Director
1988Japanclips...Director
1988Blue Hour Tango Time...Director
1988Changing Time (Quickly)...Director
1988The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome...Director
1986Miscellaneous News...Director
1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time...Director
1983Biermann-Film...Director
1983Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour...Director
1983The Power of Emotion...Director
1982War and Peace...Director
1980The Candidate...Director
1979The Patriotic Woman...Director
1978Germany in Autumn...Director
1977People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary...Director
1977Nachrichten von den Staufern...Director
1976Strongman Ferdinand...Director
1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death...Director
1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave...Director
1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908...Director
1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet...Director
1971The Big Mess...Director
1970The Indomitable Leni Peickert...Director
1970A Doctor From Haberstadt...Director
1968Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed...Director
1968E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher...Director
1967Yesterday Girl...Director
1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt...Director
1966News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival...Director
1966A Poker Game...Director
1965Policeman's Lot...Director
1963Protocol of a Revolution...Director
1963Lehrer im Wandel...Director
1961Brutality in Stone...Director
1961Rennfahrer...Director
1961Thema Amore...Director
1961Rennen...Director
1959The Indian Tomb...Assistant Director
1959The Tiger of Eschnapur...Assistant Director
Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele...Director
Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?...Director
At Work in the Ruins of Morality...Director
Spinoza und die Modi Gottes...Director
Love in a spacesuit...Director
The most beautiful treasure of evolution...Director

Production

2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929...Producer
2025Primitive Diversity...Producer
2023Lied der Medea...Producer
2021Orphea...Producer
2020The Leaks of Venice...Producer
2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution...Producer
2020Trump State Visit...Producer
2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt...Producer
2018Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt...Producer
2018Zirkus im Krieg...Producer
2017Der Gärtner von Nürnberg...Producer
2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?...Producer
2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!...Producer
1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds...Producer
1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)...Producer
1968Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed...Producer
1967Yesterday Girl...Producer
1961Brutality in Stone...Producer
1961Rennfahrer...Producer

Writing

2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929...Screenplay
2025Primitive Diversity...Writer
2023Lied der Medea...Screenplay
2021Orphea...Writer
2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution...Writer
2020Trump State Visit...Writer
2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt...Screenplay
2018Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt...Writer
2018Happy Lamento...Screenplay
2018Zirkus im Krieg...Writer
2017Der Gärtner von Nürnberg...Screenplay
2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?...Screenplay
2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand...Writer
2006Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld...Writer
2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!...Idea
1990Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge...Writer
1986Miscellaneous News...Writer
1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time...Writer
1983Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour...Writer
1983The Power of Emotion...Writer
1982War and Peace...Writer
1980The Candidate...Writer
1979The Patriotic Woman...Writer
1978Germany in Autumn...Screenplay
1977People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary...Writer
1977Nachrichten von den Staufern...Writer
1976Strongman Ferdinand...Writer
1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death...Writer
1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave...Writer
1973The Journey to Vienna...Writer
1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908...Writer
1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet...Writer
1971The Big Mess...Writer
1970The Indomitable Leni Peickert...Writer
1970A Doctor From Haberstadt...Writer
1968Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed...Writer
1968E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher...Writer
1967Yesterday Girl...Writer
1967Yesterday Girl...Short Story
1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt...Writer
1965Policeman's Lot...Writer
1963Protocol of a Revolution...Writer
1963Lehrer im Wandel...Writer
1961Brutality in Stone...Writer
1961Thema Amore...Writer

Camera

2026Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod...Director of Photography
2025Primitive Diversity...Director of Photography

Editing

2026Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod...Editor
2025Primitive Diversity...Editor
1966A Poker Game...Editor

Sound

2025Primitive Diversity...Sound Designer

Art

2025Primitive Diversity...Production Design

Creator

198810 vor 11...Creator

Acting

2025The Klimperclownas Self
2022Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregorsas Self
2020Wim Wenders, Desperadoas Self (archive footage)
2018Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopiasas Self
2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the Picturesas Self
2017An Opera of the Worldas Himself
2017Dancing with Picturesas Himself
2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Filmas Self
2016On the Holy Spiritas
2013Theorie der Erzählungas Himself
2012Prechtas Self
2011Nuits transparentesas
2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseas Self
2008Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakersas Self (uncredited)
2007Multiple Images for Five Projectorsas Self
2003druckfrischas self
2002Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgangas Self
2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!as Self - Narrator (voice)
2000Literatur im Foyeras himself
2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguardas
1998Sternstunde Philosophieas Self
1998Lebensläufeas Self
1998Alpha Forumas Self
1995Kulturzeitas self
1995The Night of the Filmmakersas Self
1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”as
1991SnowwhiteRoseredas Self
1989The Heart and the Legsas Self
1989Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschenas Self
1970Reform Circusas
1968Die Erben von Papas Kinoas
1965...Geist und ein wenig Glückas Himself
1964Grimme Awardas Self
1951German Film Awardas Self
1948Bambias Self
Finite and Infinite Gamesas Himself