Alexander Kluge
Born: 1932-02-14 in Halberstadt, Germany
Died: 2026-03-25
Known For: Directing
Biography
Alexander Kluge (14 February 1932 - 25 March 2026) 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)
- Happy Root From Non-Identity ... (Director)
- Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist ... (Director)
- Attack on a Thick Glass Door ... (Director)
- Beginnings of Film Art ... (Director)
- Cosmic Miniatures ... (Director)
- Planetary Man ... (Director)
- An Opera That Sparked a Revolution ... (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Werewolves Playoffs ... (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
- Happy Lamento ... (Director)
- The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises ... (Director)
- We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib ... (Director)
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt ... (Director)
- Zirkus im Krieg ... (Director)
2017
- Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures as Self
- Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film as Self
- An Opera of the World as Himself
- Reason is a Balancing Animal ... (Director)
- Parsifal verlernen ... (Director)
- Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende ... (Director)
- Dancing with Pictures as Himself
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg ... (Director)
2016
2015
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? ... (Director)
- Fassbinder's Funeral ... (Director)
- "They killed our friends..." ... (Director)
2014
- Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg ... (Director)
- Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima ... (Director)
- Light Veins ... (Director)
2013
- Theorie der Erzählung as Himself
2012
- Precht as Self
- Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge ... (Director)
- Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand ... (Writer)
- Rigor Was His Mark of Quality ... (Director)
2011
- Nuits transparentes
- Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen ... (Director)
2010
2009
- Der Deutschland-Komplex ... (Director)
- Früchte des Vertrauens ... (Director)
2008
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self (uncredited)
- News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital ... (Director)
- Raubengel ... (Director)
- Man is the Soft Target ... (Director)
- Sense below the Sense ... (Director)
- Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie ... (Director)
- Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" ... (Director)
- Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt ... (Director)
- Headless Man ... (Director)
- The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative ... (Director)
- Evolution in the Universe ... (Director)
- The Siamese Hands ... (Director)
- Fifi ... (Director)
2007
- The Car is your Second Skin ... (Director)
- The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts ... (Director)
- Love Makes You Perceptive! ... (Director)
- War is the End of all Plans ... (Director)
- "50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right" ... (Director)
- Das Phänomen der Oper ... (Director)
- The Poetic Power of Theory ... (Director)
- Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes ... (Director)
- The Deterrent ... (Director)
- The Safety of the President ... (Director)
- The Bridge Crosser ... (Director)
- I Lived for my Art ... (Director)
- Multiple Images for Five Projectors as Self
- Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! ... (Director)
- The Magical World of Evolution ... (Director)
- Megastars of the Art of Love ... (Director)
- What Does "Good Will" Mean? ... (Director)
- The Magic of the Darkened Soul ... (Director)
- The Opera Doctor ... (Director)
- "The Burning Giraffe" ... (Director)
2006
- Sam Remembers Papa Kong ... (Director)
- From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards ... (Director)
- Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer ... (Director)
- Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth ... (Director)
- Storm Over Egypt ... (Director)
- Flexible Memory ... (Director)
- The Greatest Treasure of Evolution ... (Director)
- Borderline Cases of Damage Control ... (Director)
- The Trickiness of Peace Treaties ... (Director)
- On Laughing and Walking Upright ... (Director)
- Sad News ... (Director)
- La Habanera ... (Director)
- La Paloma ... (Director)
- Das gab’s nur einmal ... (Director)
- Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld ... (Writer)
- Serpentine Gallery Program ... (Director)
- The Deadly Triangle ... (Director)
- 16 Minute-films ... (Director)
2005
- The Officer as a Philosopher ... (Director)
- The Moon Has Risen ... (Director)
- As a Military Judge in November 1918 ... (Director)
- Thinking for Oneself ... (Director)
- Women as Warriors ... (Director)
- The Black Market of Love ... (Director)
- "Surplus Value" & its Images ... (Director)
2004
- Freedom for the Consonants! ... (Director)
- A Tear for Every Drop of Blood ... (Director)
2003
- druckfrisch as self
- A Woman Like a Volcano ... (Director)
- First the Music, then the Words ... (Director)
- Der Untergang der Titanic ... (Director)
- Only Cans Were Saved ... (Director)
- Rette sich, wer kann ... (Director)
2002
- Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang as Self
- N.Y. Ground Zero ... (Director)
- Nur Gott hat zugesehen ... (Director)
- A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life ... (Director)
- Darklings Sing Bass ... (Director)
- What is War? ... (Director)
2001
- Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Flexible Entrepreneur ... (Director)
- The Kiss of Death ... (Director)
- "Love Pain Like Mute Fish" ... (Director)
- The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing! ... (Director)
- True Love on the Front ... (Director)
- Attention: Total Loss! ... (Director)
- Dance on the Volcano ... (Director)
2000
- Literatur im Foyer as himself
- Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
- August 1914 ... (Director)
- The Sahara Became Swampland ... (Director)
- The Execution of an Elephant ... (Director)
1999
- Spaceflight as an Internal Experience ... (Director)
- My Love is Deeper than the Sea ... (Director)
- Snapshots for my Fiancé ... (Director)
- He Who Hopes, Dies Singing ... (Director)
- Postheroic Management ... (Director)
- "With all the Wealth of my Needs" ... (Director)
- Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft ... (Director)
- The Belshazzar Project ... (Director)
- The Deluge ... (Director)
1998
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Sternstunde Philosophie as Self
- Lebensläufe as Self
- Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome ... (Director)
- 100 Years of the German Rhine ... (Director)
- Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds ... (Producer)
- I Come Every Morning for Sex ... (Director)
- "Of which we cannot speak we must sing!" ... (Director)
- The Mute Girl of Portici ... (Director)
- Desire that Rules the World ... (Director)
- Der schwedische Mozart ... (Director)
- An Experiment in Love ... (Director)
- Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt ... (Director)
- For Vertov ... (Director)
- Happy Easter ... (Director)
- Neonröhren des Himmels ... (Director)
1997
- The Day Is Nigh ... (Director)
- The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot ... (Director)
- High on Work ... (Director)
1996
- He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded ... (Director)
- Heiner Müller in Time Flight ... (Director)
- "The Wind Will Clean It Off" ... (Director)
- Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management ... (Director)
- Engine Cough ... (Director)
- Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies ... (Director)
- Chicago in Time Lapse ... (Director)
1995
- Kulturzeit as self
- The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
- The Voice of the Playwright ... (Director)
- My Rendezvous with Death ... (Director)
- Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day ... (Director)
- On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses ... (Director)
- Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
- Camp Money ... (Director)
- Love as Passion ... (Director)
- Omnivore Democracy ... (Director)
- Zoo Animals in War ... (Director)
1994
- Under the Sign of Mars ... (Director)
- I Owe the World a Dead Person ... (Director)
- Solange die Notenblätter reichen ... (Director)
- Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? ... (Director)
- The World is Not Bad, but Full ... (Director)
- Die Rache der betrogenen Braut ... (Director)
- "80,000 Operas!" ... (Director)
- Die neun Unzertrennlichen ... (Director)
1993
- The Death of Seneca ... (Director)
- The Last of the Mohicans ... (Director)
- Anti-Opera ... (Director)
- Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish ... (Director)
- Plowshare of Evil ... (Director)
- Mind, Power, Castration ... (Director)
1992
- "I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion ... (Director)
- Frederick of Prussia ... (Director)
- "The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes" ... (Director)
- Soprano versus Bass ... (Director)
1991
- SnowwhiteRosered as Self
- Rome, as Far Away as the Moon ... (Director)
- “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” ... (Director)
- Soviet Patriots of 1941 ... (Director)
- Every Frozen Structure has its Academy ... (Director)
1990
- Heiner Müller on Legal Questions ... (Director)
- Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge ... (Director)
- Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by ... (Director)
- Darwin and the Tank ... (Director)
- Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music ... (Director)
- Wild Night with Moon ... (Director)
1989
- The Heart and the Legs as Self
- Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath ... (Director)
- Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen as Self
- Paper Tiger Television, New York ... (Director)
- Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday ... (Director)
1988
- Japanclips ... (Director)
- Why Are You Crying, Antonio? ... (Director)
- 10 vor 11 ... (Creator)
- Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit ... (Director)
- The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman ... (Director)
- The Pilot's Song ... (Director)
- The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome ... (Director)
- Blue Hour Tango Time ... (Director)
- Madame Butterfly Waits ... (Director)
- Changing Time (Quickly) ... (Director)
- The Death of Lucretia ... (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 ... (Writer)
1980
- The Candidate ... (Writer)
1979
- The Patriotic Woman ... (Writer)
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 ... (Writer)
1972
- Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet ... (Director)
1971
- The Big Mess ... (Writer)
1970
- The Indomitable Leni Peickert ... (Writer)
- 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
- News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival ... (Director)
- A Poker Game ... (Director)
1965
- ...Geist und ein wenig Glück as Himself
- Policeman's Lot ... (Director)
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
- Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve ... (Director)
1963
- Protocol of a Revolution ... (Director)
- Lehrer im Wandel ... (Writer)
1961
- Brutality in Stone ... (Director)
- Rennen ... (Director)
- Rennfahrer ... (Producer)
- Thema Amore ... (Director)
1959
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Assistant Director)
- The Indian Tomb ... (Assistant Director)
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self