
Person
Klaus Wyborny
Directing · Born 1945-06-05 · Bittkau, Germany
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.
Known for

The Holy Bunch
1991
6 Small Pieces of Film
Director
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
Director
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
Director
Kubla Khan
Sound

Studies for the Decay of the West
Director

Bartleby
Director
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Director

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Second Unit
Thorium 232
Director
Filmography
- 2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the PicturesSelf
- 2016Britain’s GloryDirector
- 2015The Light of the WorldWriter
- 2014Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)Director
- 2012SyrakusDirector
- 2010Studies for the Decay of the WestDirector
- 2010Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des JuvenalDirector
- 2009Begegnung mit Werner SchroeterDirector
- 2009The Last YearDirector
- 2006Hommage an Ludwig van BeethovenDirector
- 2005D’Annunzio’s CaveDirector of Photography
- 2005Histoire du cinemaDirector
- 2004Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)Director
- 2003SullaWriter
- 1999The Critical MassHimself
- 1995The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in VeniceDirector
- 1994Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen SchlachtfeldDirector
- 1994From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)Director
- 1993The Open UniverseDirector
- 1992Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)Director
- 1991The Holy Bunch
- 1988Burning Beds
- 1988Out of New YorkDirector
- 1985At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)Director
- 1985Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)Director
- 1985Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf FilmDirector
- 1985Home Movies 1971-81
- 1983Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis(cameo)
- 19822084Director
- 1981The Blanket of LifeDirector
- 19813 Miniatures after Melanie KleinDirector
- 1981RichardDirector
- 1980The Scenic SacrificeDirector
- 1979Potpourri from "East of No West"Director
- 1978Four Shadows
- 1978Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on FilmDirector
- 1977Valiantly Towards the WavesDirector
- 1977Der Ort der HandlungProducer
- 19776 Small Pieces of FilmDirector
- 1976HousefilmDirector
- 1976SyntaxDirector
- 1976BartlebyDirector
- 1975Pictures of the Lost WordDirector
- 1975Window FilmDirector
- 1975Flight from SF to NYCDirector
- 1974The Enigma of Kaspar HauserSecond Unit
- 1974The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
- 1974Diwan
- 1974Elementary FilmhistoryDirector
- 1974The Ideal: Ecstasy & BeautyDirector
- 1973The Birth of a NationNarrator
- 19724 Rural SketchesDirector
- 1971Chimney PieceDirector
- 1971Dallas Texas / After the GoldrushDirector
- 1971Prince and DelusionWriter
- 1970Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)Cinematography
- 1970ProgrammhinweiseSound
- 1970Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die MusikDirector
- 1969The Haunted ScreenDirector
- 1969Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
- 1969Thorium 232Director
- 1969The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William ParmaginoDirector
- 1969The Greatest Crime of All TimeDirector
- 1969Kubla KhanSound
- 1968Up to the StarsDirector
- 1968Three Days with Janine, Three Days with JohnDirector
- 1968A Crowd in the Face
- 1968Im KZ
- 1968Home Sweet HomeDirector
- 1968Der Markt von RingköbingDirector
- 1968Null-Null-Zero
- 1967Going to StuttgartDirector
- 1966One Brachet Close Brachet
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