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
- Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 ... (Director)
- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod ... (Director of Photography)
- Utopie der Oper ... (Director)
- Heterotopie der Oper ... (Director)
2025
- The Klimperclown as Self
- Primitive Diversity ... (Director)
2024
- Planetary Man ... (Director)
- Happy Root From Non-Identity ... (Director)
- Cosmic Miniatures ... (Director)
- Attack on a Thick Glass Door ... (Director)
- Beginnings of Film Art ... (Director)
- Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist ... (Director)
- An Opera That Sparked a Revolution ... (Director)
- Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) ... (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)
- Zirkus, Richter’s Tango ... (Director)
- Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais ... (Director)
2020
- Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
- The Leaks of Venice ... (Producer)
- Trump State Visit ... (Director)
- The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 ... (Director)
- Werewolves Playoffs ... (Director)
- Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution ... (Director)
2019
- Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt ... (Director)
- Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens ... (Director)
2018
- Happy Lamento ... (Director)
- Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias as Self
- We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib ... (Director)
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt ... (Director)
- Zirkus im Krieg ... (Director)
- The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises ... (Director)
2017
- Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film as Self
- Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures as Self
- An Opera of the World as Himself
- Parsifal verlernen ... (Director)
- Dancing with Pictures as Himself
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg ... (Director)
- Reason is a Balancing Animal ... (Director)
2016
2015
- Fassbinder's Funeral ... (Director)
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? ... (Director)
2014
- Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima ... (Director)
- Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg ... (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)
- Rigor Was His Mark of Quality ... (Director)
- Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand ... (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
- Das Phänomen der Oper ... (Director)
- Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes ... (Director)
- Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! ... (Director)
- The Magic of the Darkened Soul ... (Director)
- The Poetic Power of Theory ... (Director)
- Multiple Images for Five Projectors as Self
2006
- 16 Minute-films ... (Director)
- The Deadly Triangle ... (Director)
- La Paloma ... (Director)
- Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld ... (Director)
- La Habanera ... (Director)
- Sad News ... (Director)
- Sam Remembers Papa Kong ... (Director)
- Das gab’s nur einmal ... (Director)
- Storm Over Egypt ... (Director)
- The Trickiness of Peace Treaties ... (Director)
- Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer ... (Director)
- From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards ... (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
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Lebensläufe as Self
- Sternstunde Philosophie as Self
- For Vertov ... (Director)
- Der schwedische Mozart ... (Director)
- Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome ... (Director)
- Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt ... (Director)
- Neonröhren des Himmels ... (Director)
- 100 Years of the German Rhine ... (Director)
- An Experiment in Love ... (Director)
- Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds ... (Director)
1997
- The Day Is Nigh ... (Director)
- The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot ... (Director)
1996
- He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded ... (Director)
- Engine Cough ... (Director)
- Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management ... (Director)
- Chicago in Time Lapse ... (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)
- Omnivore Democracy ... (Director)
- On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses ... (Director)
- Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1994
- Under the Sign of Mars ... (Director)
- I Owe the World a Dead Person ... (Director)
- The World is Not Bad, but Full ... (Director)
1993
- Anti-Opera ... (Director)
- The Last of the Mohicans ... (Director)
- The Death of Seneca ... (Director)
- Plowshare of Evil ... (Director)
- Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish ... (Director)
- Mind, Power, Castration ... (Director)
1992
- Frederick of Prussia ... (Director)
1991
- SnowwhiteRosered as Self
- Rome, as Far Away as the Moon ... (Director)
- Every Frozen Structure has its Academy ... (Director)
- “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” ... (Director)
1990
- Wild Night with Moon ... (Director)
- Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge ... (Director)
- Heiner Müller on Legal Questions ... (Director)
- Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by ... (Director)
1989
- The Heart and the Legs as Self
- Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath ... (Director)
- Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday ... (Director)
- Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen as Self
- Paper Tiger Television, New York ... (Director)
1988
- Why Are You Crying, Antonio? ... (Director)
- Japanclips ... (Director)
- The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman ... (Director)
- Blue Hour Tango Time ... (Director)
- 10 vor 11 ... (Creator)
- Antiques of Advertising ... (Director)
- The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome ... (Director)
- Madame Butterfly Waits ... (Director)
- Changing Time (Quickly) ... (Director)
1986
- Miscellaneous News ... (Director)
1985
- The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time ... (Director)
1983
- The Power of Emotion ... (Director)
- Biermann-Film ... (Director)
- Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour ... (Director)
1982
- War and Peace ... (Director)
1980
- The Candidate ... (Director)
1979
- The Patriotic Woman ... (Director)
1978
- Germany in Autumn ... (Director)
1977
- Nachrichten von den Staufern ... (Director)
- People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary ... (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)
- A Doctor From Haberstadt ... (Director)
- Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) ... (Producer)
- Reform Circus
1968
- Die Erben von Papas Kino
- Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed ... (Director)
- 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
- ...Geist und ein wenig Glück as Himself
- Policeman's Lot ... (Director)
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
1963
- Protocol of a Revolution ... (Director)
- Lehrer im Wandel ... (Director)
1961
- Brutality in Stone ... (Director)
- Thema Amore ... (Director)
- Rennfahrer ... (Director)
- Rennen ... (Director)
1959
- The Indian Tomb ... (Assistant Director)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Assistant Director)
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self