Alexander Kluge
Born: 1932-02-14 in Halberstadt, Germany
Died: 2026-03-25
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod ... (Director of Photography)
- Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 ... (Director)
- Utopie der Oper ... (Director)
- Heterotopie der Oper ... (Director)
2025
- The Klimperclown as Self
- Primitive Diversity ... (Director)
2024
- Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) ... (Director)
- Cosmic Miniatures ... (Director)
- Planetary Man ... (Director)
- An Opera That Sparked a Revolution ... (Director)
- Beginnings of Film Art ... (Director)
- Attack on a Thick Glass Door ... (Director)
- Happy Root From Non-Identity ... (Director)
- Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist ... (Director)
- String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera ... (Director)
2023
- Lied der Medea ... (Director)
2022
- Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
- In the Rock of Signs ... (Director)
- Reason is a Balancing Animal ... (Director)
- Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) ... (Director)
2021
- Orphea ... (Director)
- Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais ... (Director)
- Zirkus, Richter’s Tango ... (Director)
2020
- Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
- The Leaks of Venice ... (Producer)
- Werewolves Playoffs ... (Director)
- The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 ... (Director)
- Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution ... (Director)
- Trump State Visit ... (Director)
2019
- Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens ... (Director)
- Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt ... (Director)
2018
- Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias as Self
- We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib ... (Director)
- Happy Lamento ... (Director)
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt ... (Director)
- The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises ... (Director)
- Zirkus im Krieg ... (Director)
2017
- Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures as Self
- Parsifal verlernen ... (Director)
- Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film as Self
- An Opera of the World as Himself
- Dancing with Pictures as Himself
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg ... (Director)
2016
2015
- Fassbinder's Funeral ... (Director)
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? ... (Director)
2014
- Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg ... (Director)
- Light Veins ... (Director)
- Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima ... (Director)
2013
- Theorie der Erzählung as Himself
2012
- Precht as Self
- Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand ... (Director)
- Rigor Was His Mark of Quality ... (Director)
- Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge ... (Director)
2011
- Nuits transparentes
- Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen ... (Director)
2010
2009
- Früchte des Vertrauens ... (Director)
- Der Deutschland-Komplex ... (Director)
2008
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self (uncredited)
- News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital ... (Director)
- Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie ... (Director)
- Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" ... (Director)
2007
- The Poetic Power of Theory ... (Director)
- The Magic of the Darkened Soul ... (Director)
- Das Phänomen der Oper ... (Director)
- Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! ... (Director)
- Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes ... (Director)
- Multiple Images for Five Projectors as Self
2006
- From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards ... (Director)
- Das gab’s nur einmal ... (Director)
- Storm Over Egypt ... (Director)
- 16 Minute-films ... (Director)
- La Habanera ... (Director)
- Sam Remembers Papa Kong ... (Director)
- The Deadly Triangle ... (Director)
- Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld ... (Director)
- The Trickiness of Peace Treaties ... (Director)
- Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer ... (Director)
- La Paloma ... (Director)
- Sad News ... (Director)
2005
- The Officer as a Philosopher ... (Director)
2003
- druckfrisch as self
- A Woman Like a Volcano ... (Director)
2002
2001
- Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Flexible Entrepreneur ... (Director)
2000
- Literatur im Foyer as himself
- Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
- The Execution of an Elephant ... (Director)
1999
- Spaceflight as an Internal Experience ... (Director)
- He Who Hopes, Dies Singing ... (Director)
1998
- Sternstunde Philosophie as Self
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Lebensläufe as Self
- Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome ... (Director)
- For Vertov ... (Director)
- An Experiment in Love ... (Director)
- Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds ... (Director)
- 100 Years of the German Rhine ... (Director)
- Der schwedische Mozart ... (Director)
- Neonröhren des Himmels ... (Director)
- Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt ... (Director)
1997
- The Day Is Nigh ... (Director)
- The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot ... (Director)
1996
- He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded ... (Director)
- Engine Cough ... (Director)
- Chicago in Time Lapse ... (Director)
- Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management ... (Director)
- Heiner Müller in Time Flight ... (Director)
1995
- Kulturzeit as self
- The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
- The Voice of the Playwright ... (Director)
- Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day ... (Director)
- My Rendezvous with Death ... (Director)
- On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses ... (Director)
- Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
- Omnivore Democracy ... (Director)
1994
- The World is Not Bad, but Full ... (Director)
- Under the Sign of Mars ... (Director)
- I Owe the World a Dead Person ... (Director)
1993
- Anti-Opera ... (Director)
- Mind, Power, Castration ... (Director)
- The Last of the Mohicans ... (Director)
- The Death of Seneca ... (Director)
- Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish ... (Director)
- Plowshare of Evil ... (Director)
1992
- Frederick of Prussia ... (Director)
1991
- SnowwhiteRosered as Self
- “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” ... (Director)
- Rome, as Far Away as the Moon ... (Director)
- Every Frozen Structure has its Academy ... (Director)
1990
- Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge ... (Director)
- Heiner Müller on Legal Questions ... (Director)
- Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by ... (Director)
- Wild Night with Moon ... (Director)
1989
- The Heart and the Legs as Self
- Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen as Self
- Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday ... (Director)
- Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath ... (Director)
- Paper Tiger Television, New York ... (Director)
1988
- The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman ... (Director)
- 10 vor 11 ... (Creator)
- Madame Butterfly Waits ... (Director)
- Antiques of Advertising ... (Director)
1986
- Miscellaneous News ... (Director)
1985
- The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time ... (Director)
1983
- The Power of Emotion ... (Director)
- Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour ... (Director)
- Biermann-Film ... (Director)
1982
- War and Peace ... (Director)
1980
- The Candidate ... (Director)
1979
- The Patriotic Woman ... (Director)
1978
- Germany in Autumn ... (Director)
1977
- People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary ... (Director)
- Nachrichten von den Staufern ... (Director)
1976
- Strongman Ferdinand ... (Director)
1974
1973
- The Journey to Vienna ... (Writer)
- Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave ... (Director)
- Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 ... (Director)
1972
- Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet ... (Director)
1971
- The Big Mess ... (Director)
1970
- The Indomitable Leni Peickert ... (Director)
- Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) ... (Producer)
- A Doctor From Haberstadt ... (Director)
- Reform Circus
1968
- Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed ... (Director)
- Die Erben von Papas Kino
- E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher ... (Director)
1967
- Yesterday Girl ... (Director)
- Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt ... (Director)
1966
- A Poker Game ... (Director)
- News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival ... (Director)
1965
- Policeman's Lot ... (Director)
- ...Geist und ein wenig Glück as Himself
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
1963
- Lehrer im Wandel ... (Director)
- Protocol of a Revolution ... (Director)
1961
- Brutality in Stone ... (Director)
- Rennfahrer ... (Director)
- Rennen ... (Director)
- Thema Amore ... (Director)
1959
- The Indian Tomb ... (Assistant Director)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Assistant Director)
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self