Alexander Kluge

Directing

Born: 1932-02-14 in Halberstadt, Germany

Biography

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.

Acting

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

Self (uncredited)

The Night of the Filmmakers

Self

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Self

Finite and Infinite Games

Himself

SnowwhiteRosered

Self

The Heart and the Legs

Self

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

Self

Die Erben von Papas Kino

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang

Self

On the Holy Spirit

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

Self

Multiple Images for Five Projectors

Self

Dancing with Pictures

Himself

An Opera of the World

Himself

Theorie der Erzählung

Himself

Nuits transparentes

...Geist und ein wenig Glück

Himself

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

Self

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Self (archive footage)

Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures

Self

Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

Reform Circus

Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

Self

The Klimperclown

Self

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

Self (uncredited)

The Night of the Filmmakers

Self

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Self

Finite and Infinite Games

Himself

SnowwhiteRosered

Self

The Heart and the Legs

Self

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

Self

Die Erben von Papas Kino

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang

Self

On the Holy Spirit

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

Self

Multiple Images for Five Projectors

Self

Dancing with Pictures

Himself

An Opera of the World

Himself

Theorie der Erzählung

Himself

Nuits transparentes

...Geist und ein wenig Glück

Himself

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

Self

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Self (archive footage)

Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures

Self

Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

Reform Circus

Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

Self

The Klimperclown

Self

Director

Germany in Autumn

Director

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Director

Yesterday Girl

Director

The Big Mess

Director

Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital

Director

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death

Director

The Patriotic Woman

Director

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Director

Brutality in Stone

Director

E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

Director

The Power of Emotion

Director

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

Director

Strongman Ferdinand

Director

Chicago in Time Lapse

Director

Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

Director

Sad News

Director

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

Director

Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome

Director

Engine Cough

Director

Miscellaneous News

Director

Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

Director

Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"

Director

Das gab’s nur einmal

Director

La Habanera

Director

Biermann-Film

Director

Neonröhren des Himmels

Director

100 Years of the German Rhine

Director

Protocol of a Revolution

Director

Lehrer im Wandel

Director

Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish

Director

Storm Over Egypt

Director

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Director

The Deadly Triangle

Director

The Trickiness of Peace Treaties

Director

Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt

Director

A Doctor From Haberstadt

Director

Rennen

Director

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908

Director

Policeman's Lot

Director

The Candidate

Director

War and Peace

Director

Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

Director

The Officer as a Philosopher

Director

The Flexible Entrepreneur

Director

A Woman Like a Volcano

Director

He Who Hopes, Dies Singing

Director

Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer

Director

Der schwedische Mozart

Director

Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde

Director

Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

Director

Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

Director

Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

Director

At Work in the Ruins of Morality

Director

Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

Director

Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

Director

“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

Director

Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

Director

Frederick of Prussia

Director

Mind, Power, Castration

Director

Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

Director

The Last of the Mohicans

Director

Heiner Müller in Time Flight

Director

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

Director

He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

Director

Anti-Opera

Director

Under the Sign of Mars

Director

My Rendezvous with Death

Director

Plowshare of Evil

Director

Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

Director

The Death of Seneca

Director

Omnivore Democracy

Director

The World is Not Bad, but Full

Director

Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

Director

The Voice of the Playwright

Director

I Owe the World a Dead Person

Director

On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

Director

Cosmic Miniatures

Director

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

Director

Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

Director

The Day Is Nigh

Director

Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

Director

The Execution of an Elephant

Director

People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

Director

For Vertov

Director

Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

Director

Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende

Director

Nachrichten von den Staufern

Director

An Experiment in Love

Director

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

Director

Dancing with Pictures

Director

Theorie der Erzählung

Director

Das Phänomen der Oper

Director

The Poetic Power of Theory

Director

Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!

Director

Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes

Director

The Magic of the Darkened Soul

Director

Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais

Director

Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)

Director

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

Director

Planetary Man

Director

In the Rock of Signs

Director

Zirkus, Richter’s Tango

Director

Reason is a Balancing Animal

Director

The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises

Director

Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

Director

The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

Director

An Opera That Sparked a Revolution

Director

We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib

Director

Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

Director

Attack on a Thick Glass Door

Director

String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera

Director

Happy Root From Non-Identity

Director

Light Veins

Director

Paper Tiger Television, New York

Director

Multiple Images for Five Projectors

Director

Beginnings of Film Art

Director

Happy Lamento

Director

Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?

Director

Der Deutschland-Komplex

Director

Früchte des Vertrauens

Director

Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele

Director

La Paloma

Director

News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival

Director

Parsifal verlernen

Director

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand

Director

Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg

Director

Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard

Director

16 Minute-films

Director

Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens

Director

Orphea

Director

Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima

Director

Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen

Director

A Poker Game

Director

Thema Amore

Director

Rennfahrer

Director

Sam Remembers Papa Kong

Director

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

Director

Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

Director

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

Director

Werewolves Playoffs

Director

Primitive Diversity

Director

Wild Night with Moon

Director

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Director

Utopie der Oper

Director

Heterotopie der Oper

Director

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Director

Antiques of Advertising

Director

Madame Butterfly Waits

Director

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Director

Lied der Medea

Director

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Director

Fassbinder's Funeral

Director

Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt

Director

Spinoza und die Modi Gottes

Director

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Director

Zirkus im Krieg

Director

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Director

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Director

Trump State Visit

Director

Germany in Autumn

Director

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Director

Yesterday Girl

Director

The Big Mess

Director

Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital

Director

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death

Director

The Patriotic Woman

Director

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Director

Brutality in Stone

Director

E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

Director

The Power of Emotion

Director

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

Director

Strongman Ferdinand

Director

Chicago in Time Lapse

Director

Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

Director

Sad News

Director

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

Director

Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome

Director

Engine Cough

Director

Miscellaneous News

Director

Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

Director

Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"

Director

Das gab’s nur einmal

Director

La Habanera

Director

Biermann-Film

Director

Neonröhren des Himmels

Director

100 Years of the German Rhine

Director

Protocol of a Revolution

Director

Lehrer im Wandel

Director

Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish

Director

Storm Over Egypt

Director

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Director

The Deadly Triangle

Director

The Trickiness of Peace Treaties

Director

Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt

Director

A Doctor From Haberstadt

Director

Rennen

Director

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908

Director

Policeman's Lot

Director

The Candidate

Director

War and Peace

Director

Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

Director

The Officer as a Philosopher

Director

The Flexible Entrepreneur

Director

A Woman Like a Volcano

Director

He Who Hopes, Dies Singing

Director

Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer

Director

Der schwedische Mozart

Director

Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde

Director

Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

Director

Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

Director

Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

Director

At Work in the Ruins of Morality

Director

Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

Director

Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

Director

“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

Director

Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

Director

Frederick of Prussia

Director

Mind, Power, Castration

Director

Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

Director

The Last of the Mohicans

Director

Heiner Müller in Time Flight

Director

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

Director

He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

Director

Anti-Opera

Director

Under the Sign of Mars

Director

My Rendezvous with Death

Director

Plowshare of Evil

Director

Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

Director

The Death of Seneca

Director

Omnivore Democracy

Director

The World is Not Bad, but Full

Director

Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

Director

The Voice of the Playwright

Director

I Owe the World a Dead Person

Director

On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

Director

Cosmic Miniatures

Director

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

Director

Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

Director

The Day Is Nigh

Director

Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

Director

The Execution of an Elephant

Director

People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

Director

For Vertov

Director

Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

Director

Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende

Director

Nachrichten von den Staufern

Director

An Experiment in Love

Director

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

Director

Dancing with Pictures

Director

Theorie der Erzählung

Director

Das Phänomen der Oper

Director

The Poetic Power of Theory

Director

Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!

Director

Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes

Director

The Magic of the Darkened Soul

Director

Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais

Director

Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)

Director

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

Director

Planetary Man

Director

In the Rock of Signs

Director

Zirkus, Richter’s Tango

Director

Reason is a Balancing Animal

Director

The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises

Director

Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

Director

The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

Director

An Opera That Sparked a Revolution

Director

We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib

Director

Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

Director

Attack on a Thick Glass Door

Director

String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera

Director

Happy Root From Non-Identity

Director

Light Veins

Director

Paper Tiger Television, New York

Director

Multiple Images for Five Projectors

Director

Beginnings of Film Art

Director

Happy Lamento

Director

Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?

Director

Der Deutschland-Komplex

Director

Früchte des Vertrauens

Director

Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele

Director

La Paloma

Director

News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival

Director

Parsifal verlernen

Director

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand

Director

Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg

Director

Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard

Director

16 Minute-films

Director

Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens

Director

Orphea

Director

Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima

Director

Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen

Director

A Poker Game

Director

Thema Amore

Director

Rennfahrer

Director

Sam Remembers Papa Kong

Director

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

Director

Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

Director

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

Director

Werewolves Playoffs

Director

Primitive Diversity

Director

Wild Night with Moon

Director

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Director

Utopie der Oper

Director

Heterotopie der Oper

Director

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Director

Antiques of Advertising

Director

Madame Butterfly Waits

Director

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Director

Lied der Medea

Director

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Director

Fassbinder's Funeral

Director

Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt

Director

Spinoza und die Modi Gottes

Director

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Director

Zirkus im Krieg

Director

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Director

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Director

Trump State Visit

Director

Other Credits

Germany in Autumn

Screenplay

The Big Mess

Writer

The Patriotic Woman

Writer

Brutality in Stone

Writer

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

Writer

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

Writer

The Journey to Vienna

Writer

Lehrer im Wandel

Writer

Yesterday Girl

Writer

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Writer

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Writer

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Writer

Miscellaneous News

Writer

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908

Writer

Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt

Writer

A Doctor From Haberstadt

Writer

Protocol of a Revolution

Writer

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death

Writer

Policeman's Lot

Writer

Strongman Ferdinand

Writer

The Candidate

Writer

War and Peace

Writer

Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

Writer

The Power of Emotion

Writer

E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

Writer

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Producer

Yesterday Girl

Producer

Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

Writer

People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

Writer

Nachrichten von den Staufern

Writer

Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

Producer

Yesterday Girl

Short Story

Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

Writer

Happy Lamento

Screenplay

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand

Writer

The Indian Tomb

Assistant Director

A Poker Game

Editor

The Tiger of Eschnapur

Assistant Director

Thema Amore

Writer

Brutality in Stone

Producer

Rennfahrer

Producer

Orphea

Producer

Orphea

Writer

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

Producer

The Leaks of Venice

Producer

Primitive Diversity

Writer

Primitive Diversity

Producer

Primitive Diversity

Editor

Primitive Diversity

Sound Designer

Primitive Diversity

Director of Photography

Primitive Diversity

Production Design

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Director of Photography

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Editor

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Producer

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Screenplay

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Screenplay

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Producer

Lied der Medea

Producer

Lied der Medea

Screenplay

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Producer

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Screenplay

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Producer

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Writer

Zirkus im Krieg

Producer

Zirkus im Krieg

Writer

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Producer

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Screenplay

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Producer

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Writer

Trump State Visit

Producer

Trump State Visit

Writer

Germany in Autumn

Screenplay

The Big Mess

Writer

The Patriotic Woman

Writer

Brutality in Stone

Writer

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

Writer

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

Writer

The Journey to Vienna

Writer

Lehrer im Wandel

Writer

Yesterday Girl

Writer

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Writer

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Writer

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Writer

Miscellaneous News

Writer

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908

Writer

Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt

Writer

A Doctor From Haberstadt

Writer

Protocol of a Revolution

Writer

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death

Writer

Policeman's Lot

Writer

Strongman Ferdinand

Writer

The Candidate

Writer

War and Peace

Writer

Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

Writer

The Power of Emotion

Writer

E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

Writer

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Producer

Yesterday Girl

Producer

Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

Writer

People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

Writer

Nachrichten von den Staufern

Writer

Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

Producer

Yesterday Girl

Short Story

Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

Writer

Happy Lamento

Screenplay

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand

Writer

The Indian Tomb

Assistant Director

A Poker Game

Editor

The Tiger of Eschnapur

Assistant Director

Thema Amore

Writer

Brutality in Stone

Producer

Rennfahrer

Producer

Orphea

Producer

Orphea

Writer

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

Producer

The Leaks of Venice

Producer

Primitive Diversity

Writer

Primitive Diversity

Producer

Primitive Diversity

Editor

Primitive Diversity

Sound Designer

Primitive Diversity

Director of Photography

Primitive Diversity

Production Design

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Director of Photography

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Editor

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Producer

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Screenplay

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Screenplay

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Producer

Lied der Medea

Producer

Lied der Medea

Screenplay

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Producer

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Screenplay

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Producer

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Writer

Zirkus im Krieg

Producer

Zirkus im Krieg

Writer

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Producer

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Screenplay

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Producer

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Writer

Trump State Visit

Producer

Trump State Visit

Writer