Klaus Wyborny
Born: 1945-06-05 in Bittkau, Germany
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2017
2016
- Britain’s Glory ... (Director)
2015
- The Light of the World ... (Writer)
2014
- Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum) ... (Director)
2012
- Syrakus ... (Director)
2010
- Studies for the Decay of the West ... (Director)
- Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal ... (Director)
2009
- The Last Year ... (Director)
- Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter ... (Director)
2006
- Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven ... (Director)
2005
- D’Annunzio’s Cave ... (Director of Photography)
- Histoire du cinema ... (Director)
2004
- Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2) ... (Director)
2003
- Sulla ... (Director)
1999
- The Critical Mass as Himself
1995
- The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice ... (Director)
1994
- From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4) ... (Director)
- Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld ... (Director)
1993
- The Open Universe ... (Director)
1992
- Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3) ... (Director)
1991
1988
- Burning Beds
- Out of New York ... (Director)
1985
- Home Movies 1971-81
- At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1) ... (Director)
- Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5) ... (Director)
1982
- 2084 ... (Director)
1981
- The Blanket of Life ... (Director)
- Richard ... (Director)
- 3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein ... (Director)
1980
- The Scenic Sacrifice ... (Director)
1979
- Potpourri from "East of No West" ... (Director)
1978
- Four Shadows
- Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film ... (Director)
1977
- Der Ort der Handlung ... (Director)
- Valiantly Towards the Waves ... (Director)
- 6 Small Pieces of Film ... (Director)
1975
- Pictures of the Lost Word ... (Director)
- Flight from SF to NYC ... (Director)
- Window Film ... (Director)
1974
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser ... (Second Unit)
- Diwan
- The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
- Elementary Filmhistory ... (Director)
- The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty ... (Director)
1973
- The Birth of a Nation as Narrator
1972
- 4 Rural Sketches ... (Director)
1971
- Chimney Piece ... (Director)
- Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush ... (Director)
- Prince and Delusion ... (Writer)
1970
- Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik ... (Director)
- Programmhinweise ... (Sound)
- Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge) ... (Director)
1969
- Thorium 232 ... (Director)
- Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
- The Greatest Crime of All Time ... (Director)
- Kubla Khan ... (Sound)
- The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino ... (Director)
- The Haunted Screen ... (Director)
1968
- Up to the Stars ... (Director)
- A Crowd in the Face
- Der Markt von Ringköbing ... (Director)
- Im KZ
- Null-Null-Zero
- Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John ... (Director)
- Home Sweet Home ... (Director)
1967
- Going to Stuttgart ... (Director)