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)
- Heterotopie der Oper ... (Director)
- Utopie der Oper ... (Director)
2025
- The Klimperclown as Self
- Primitive Diversity ... (Director)
2024
- Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist ... (Director)
- String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera ... (Director)
- Beginnings of Film Art ... (Director)
- Happy Root From Non-Identity ... (Director)
- Attack on a Thick Glass Door ... (Director)
- Cosmic Miniatures ... (Director)
- Planetary Man ... (Director)
- Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) ... (Director)
- An Opera That Sparked a Revolution ... (Director)
2023
- Lied der Medea ... (Director)
2022
- Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
- Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) ... (Director)
- In the Rock of Signs ... (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)
- The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 ... (Director)
- Trump State Visit ... (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
- Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias as Self
- We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib ... (Director)
- Happy Lamento ... (Director)
- The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises ... (Director)
- Zirkus im Krieg ... (Director)
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt ... (Director)
2017
- Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures as Self
- Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film as Self
- Parsifal verlernen ... (Director)
- Reason is a Balancing Animal ... (Director)
- Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende ... (Director)
- An Opera of the World as Himself
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg ... (Director)
- Dancing with Pictures as Himself
2016
2015
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? ... (Director)
- Fassbinder's Funeral ... (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
- Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand ... (Writer)
- 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
- 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)
- Evolution in the Universe ... (Director)
- Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt ... (Director)
- Sense below the Sense ... (Director)
- Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" ... (Director)
- Headless Man ... (Director)
- The Siamese Hands ... (Director)
- Fifi ... (Director)
- The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative ... (Director)
- Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie ... (Director)
2007
- Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes ... (Director)
- The Magic of the Darkened Soul ... (Director)
- The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts ... (Director)
- Love Makes You Perceptive! ... (Director)
- The Bridge Crosser ... (Director)
- Multiple Images for Five Projectors as Self
- The Poetic Power of Theory ... (Director)
- The Deterrent ... (Director)
- What Does "Good Will" Mean? ... (Director)
- I Lived for my Art ... (Director)
- Das Phänomen der Oper ... (Director)
- The Opera Doctor ... (Director)
- "The Burning Giraffe" ... (Director)
- The Safety of the President ... (Director)
- The Car is your Second Skin ... (Director)
- Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! ... (Director)
- "50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right" ... (Director)
- The Magical World of Evolution ... (Director)
- War is the End of all Plans ... (Director)
- Megastars of the Art of Love ... (Director)
2006
- Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer ... (Director)
- Sad News ... (Director)
- Flexible Memory ... (Director)
- La Paloma ... (Director)
- The Deadly Triangle ... (Director)
- Storm Over Egypt ... (Director)
- The Greatest Treasure of Evolution ... (Director)
- 16 Minute-films ... (Director)
- Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth ... (Director)
- The Trickiness of Peace Treaties ... (Director)
- Borderline Cases of Damage Control ... (Director)
- From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards ... (Director)
- Das gab’s nur einmal ... (Director)
- Sam Remembers Papa Kong ... (Director)
- Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld ... (Writer)
- La Habanera ... (Director)
- Serpentine Gallery Program ... (Director)
- On Laughing and Walking Upright ... (Director)
2005
- The Officer as a Philosopher ... (Director)
- Women as Warriors ... (Director)
- The Black Market of Love ... (Director)
- Thinking for Oneself ... (Director)
- The Moon Has Risen ... (Director)
- "Surplus Value" & its Images ... (Director)
- As a Military Judge in November 1918 ... (Director)
2004
- A Tear for Every Drop of Blood ... (Director)
- Freedom for the Consonants! ... (Director)
2003
- druckfrisch as self
- Der Untergang der Titanic ... (Director)
- Rette sich, wer kann ... (Director)
- Only Cans Were Saved ... (Director)
- First the Music, then the Words ... (Director)
- A Woman Like a Volcano ... (Director)
2002
- Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang as Self
- N.Y. Ground Zero ... (Director)
- Darklings Sing Bass ... (Director)
- What is War? ... (Director)
- A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life ... (Director)
- Nur Gott hat zugesehen ... (Director)
2001
- Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Flexible Entrepreneur ... (Director)
- Attention: Total Loss! ... (Director)
- The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing! ... (Director)
- "Love Pain Like Mute Fish" ... (Director)
- Dance on the Volcano ... (Director)
- The Kiss of Death ... (Director)
- True Love on the Front ... (Director)
2000
- Literatur im Foyer as himself
- Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
- The Sahara Became Swampland ... (Director)
- The Execution of an Elephant ... (Director)
- August 1914 ... (Director)
1999
- Spaceflight as an Internal Experience ... (Director)
- The Deluge ... (Director)
- My Love is Deeper than the Sea ... (Director)
- "With all the Wealth of my Needs" ... (Director)
- He Who Hopes, Dies Singing ... (Director)
- Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft ... (Director)
- The Belshazzar Project ... (Director)
- Snapshots for my Fiancé ... (Director)
- Postheroic Management ... (Director)
1998
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Sternstunde Philosophie as Self
- Lebensläufe as Self
- An Experiment in Love ... (Director)
- Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome ... (Director)
- Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds ... (Producer)
- "Of which we cannot speak we must sing!" ... (Director)
- I Come Every Morning for Sex ... (Director)
- The Mute Girl of Portici ... (Director)
- 100 Years of the German Rhine ... (Director)
- Neonröhren des Himmels ... (Director)
- Der schwedische Mozart ... (Director)
- Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt ... (Director)
- For Vertov ... (Director)
- Desire that Rules the World ... (Director)
- Happy Easter ... (Director)
1997
- The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot ... (Director)
- The Day Is Nigh ... (Director)
- High on Work ... (Director)
1996
- Engine Cough ... (Director)
- He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded ... (Director)
- Chicago in Time Lapse ... (Director)
- Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management ... (Director)
- "The Wind Will Clean It Off" ... (Director)
- Heiner Müller in Time Flight ... (Director)
- Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies ... (Director)
1995
- Kulturzeit as self
- The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
- My Rendezvous with Death ... (Director)
- On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses ... (Director)
- Omnivore Democracy ... (Director)
- The Voice of the Playwright ... (Director)
- Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
- Camp Money ... (Director)
- Love as Passion ... (Director)
- Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day ... (Director)
- Zoo Animals in War ... (Director)
1994
- I Owe the World a Dead Person ... (Director)
- Die neun Unzertrennlichen ... (Director)
- Die Rache der betrogenen Braut ... (Director)
- Under the Sign of Mars ... (Director)
- Solange die Notenblätter reichen ... (Director)
- The World is Not Bad, but Full ... (Director)
- Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? ... (Director)
- "80,000 Operas!" ... (Director)
1993
- The Death of Seneca ... (Director)
- Mind, Power, Castration ... (Director)
- Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish ... (Director)
- Plowshare of Evil ... (Director)
- Anti-Opera ... (Director)
- The Last of the Mohicans ... (Director)
1992
- Frederick of Prussia ... (Director)
- Soprano versus Bass ... (Director)
- "The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes" ... (Director)
- "I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion ... (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)
- Soviet Patriots of 1941 ... (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)
- Darwin and the Tank ... (Director)
- Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music ... (Director)
1989
- The Heart and the Legs as Self
- Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath ... (Director)
- Paper Tiger Television, New York ... (Director)
- Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen as Self
- Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday ... (Director)
1988
- Japanclips ... (Director)
- Why Are You Crying, Antonio? ... (Director)
- 10 vor 11 ... (Creator)
- The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman ... (Director)
- Changing Time (Quickly) ... (Director)
- Madame Butterfly Waits ... (Director)
- Blue Hour Tango Time ... (Director)
- The Pilot's Song ... (Director)
- The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome ... (Director)
- Antiques of Advertising ... (Director)
- Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit ... (Director)
- The Death of Lucretia ... (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
- Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave ... (Director)
- The Journey to Vienna ... (Writer)
- Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 ... (Writer)
1972
- Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet ... (Director)
1971
- The Big Mess ... (Writer)
1970
- Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) ... (Producer)
- The Indomitable Leni Peickert ... (Writer)
- A Doctor From Haberstadt ... (Director)
- Reform Circus
1968
- Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed ... (Director)
- E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher ... (Director)
- Die Erben von Papas Kino
1967
- Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt ... (Director)
- Yesterday Girl ... (Director)
1966
- News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival ... (Director)
- A Poker Game ... (Director)
1965
- Policeman's Lot ... (Director)
- ...Geist und ein wenig Glück as Himself
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
- Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve ... (Director)
1963
- Lehrer im Wandel ... (Writer)
- Protocol of a Revolution ... (Director)
1961
- Rennen ... (Director)
- Brutality in Stone ... (Director)
- Rennfahrer ... (Producer)
- 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