Person
Alexander Kluge
Directing · 1932–2026 · Halberstadt, Germany
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.
Known for
Alpha Forum
Self
Bambi
Self
Kulturzeit
self
German Film Award
Self
Grimme Award
Self
Lebensläufe
Self
Precht
Self
The Big Mess
Director
druckfrisch
self
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
Filmography
- 2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929Director
- 2026Heterotopie der OperDirector
- 2026Utopie der OperDirector
- 2026Die Liebe stört der kalte TodDirector of Photography
- 2025The KlimperclownSelf
- 2025Primitive DiversityDirector
- 2024Beginnings of Film ArtDirector
- 2024An Opera That Sparked a RevolutionDirector
- 2024Attack on a Thick Glass DoorDirector
- 2024Planetary ManDirector
- 2024Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)Director
- 2024String Cinema – Mathematical Minute OperaDirector
- 2024Happy Root From Non-IdentityDirector
- 2024Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and SociologistDirector
- 2024Cosmic MiniaturesDirector
- 2023Lied der MedeaDirector
- 2022Come with Me to the Cinema – The GregorsSelf
- 2022Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)Director
- 2022In the Rock of SignsDirector
- 2021Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os CanibaisDirector
- 2021OrpheaDirector
- 2021Zirkus, Richter’s TangoDirector
- 2020Wim Wenders, DesperadoSelf (archive footage)
- 2020Werewolves PlayoffsDirector
- 2020The Leaks of VeniceProducer
- 2020The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941Director
- 2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen RevolutionDirector
- 2020Trump State VisitDirector
- 2019Veränderung ist das Salz des VergnügensDirector
- 2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum ErdmittelpunktDirector
- 2018Der Zirkus kommt in die StadtDirector
- 2018Happy LamentoDirector
- 2018The Revolution is a Creature Full of SurprisesDirector
- 2018Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other UtopiasSelf
- 2018We Philosophers from Eve’s RibDirector
- 2018Zirkus im KriegDirector
- 2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the PicturesSelf
- 2017An Opera of the WorldHimself
- 2017Parsifal verlernenDirector
- 2017Dancing with PicturesHimself
- 2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmSelf
- 2017Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues EndeDirector
- 2017Reason is a Balancing AnimalDirector
- 2017Der Gärtner von NürnbergDirector
- 2016On the Holy Spirit
- 2015Fassbinder's FuneralDirector
- 2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?Director
- 2014Nachrichten vom Großen KriegDirector
- 2014Light VeinsDirector
- 2014Moby Dick – Godzilla – FukushimaDirector
- 2013Theorie der ErzählungHimself
- 2012Rigor Was His Mark of QualityDirector
- 2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer HandDirector
- 2012PrechtSelf
- 2012Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander KlugeDirector
- 2011Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachenDirector
- 2011Nuits transparentes
- 2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseSelf
- 2009Früchte des VertrauensDirector
- 2009Der Deutschland-KomplexDirector
- 2008Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"Director
- 2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The CapitalDirector
- 2008FifiDirector
- 2008The Siamese HandsDirector
- 2008Sense below the SenseDirector
- 2008Headless ManDirector
- 2008The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an InitiativeDirector
- 2008RaubengelDirector
- 2008Who Am "I"? Peer GyntDirector
- 2008Evolution in the UniverseDirector
- 2008Counter Shot: Departure of the FilmmakersSelf (uncredited)
- 2008Man is the Soft TargetDirector
- 2008Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der MaterieDirector
- 2007Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsSelf
- 2007What Does "Good Will" Mean?Director
- 2007The Safety of the PresidentDirector
- 2007The Bridge CrosserDirector
- 2007The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shortsDirector
- 2007The Car is your Second SkinDirector
- 2007Megastars of the Art of LoveDirector
- 2007The Magical World of EvolutionDirector
- 2007The DeterrentDirector
- 2007War is the End of all PlansDirector
- 2007I Lived for my ArtDirector
- 2007"The Burning Giraffe"Director
- 2007"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"Director
- 2007Love Makes You Perceptive!Director
- 2007Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!Director
- 2007Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & FakesDirector
- 2007Das Phänomen der OperDirector
- 2007The Magic of the Darkened SoulDirector
- 2007The Poetic Power of TheoryDirector
- 2007The Opera DoctorDirector
- 2006On Laughing and Walking UprightDirector
- 2006Flexible MemoryDirector
- 2006Serpentine Gallery ProgramDirector
- 2006Borderline Cases of Damage ControlDirector
- 2006Primal Ocean and Snowball EarthDirector
- 200616 Minute-filmsDirector
- 2006The Greatest Treasure of EvolutionDirector
- 2006Sad NewsDirector
- 2006Das gab’s nur einmalDirector
- 2006La HabaneraDirector
- 2006Storm Over EgyptDirector
- 2006The Deadly TriangleDirector
- 2006The Trickiness of Peace TreatiesDirector
- 2006From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead WestwardsDirector
- 2006Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein DampferDirector
- 2006Die Frau auf dem SchlachtfeldDirector
- 2006La PalomaDirector
- 2006Sam Remembers Papa KongDirector
- 2005"Surplus Value" & its ImagesDirector
- 2005As a Military Judge in November 1918Director
- 2005Thinking for OneselfDirector
- 2005Women as WarriorsDirector
- 2005The Black Market of LoveDirector
- 2005The Moon Has RisenDirector
- 2005The Officer as a PhilosopherDirector
- 2004Freedom for the Consonants!Director
- 2004A Tear for Every Drop of BloodDirector
- 2003Only Cans Were SavedDirector
- 2003First the Music, then the WordsDirector
- 2003Rette sich, wer kannDirector
- 2003druckfrischself
- 2003Der Untergang der TitanicDirector
- 2003A Woman Like a VolcanoDirector
- 2002Nur Gott hat zugesehenDirector
- 2002What is War?Director
- 2002Darklings Sing BassDirector
- 2002N.Y. Ground ZeroDirector
- 2002A Farewell to the Secure Side of LifeDirector
- 2002Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen AusgangSelf
- 2001The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!Director
- 2001Dance on the VolcanoDirector
- 2001The Kiss of DeathDirector
- 2001True Love on the FrontDirector
- 2001"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"Director
- 2001Attention: Total Loss!Director
- 2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2001The Flexible EntrepreneurDirector
- 2000Literatur im Foyerhimself
- 2000The Sahara Became SwamplandDirector
- 2000August 1914Director
- 2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
- 2000The Execution of an ElephantDirector
- 1999The DelugeDirector
- 1999"With all the Wealth of my Needs"Director
- 1999Spaceflight as an Internal ExperienceDirector
- 1999Postheroic ManagementDirector
- 1999Nietzsches fröhliche WissenschaftDirector
- 1999Snapshots for my FiancéDirector
- 1999My Love is Deeper than the SeaDirector
- 1999The Belshazzar ProjectDirector
- 1999He Who Hopes, Dies SingingDirector
- 1998Desire that Rules the WorldDirector
- 1998Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewaltDirector
- 1998An Experiment in LoveDirector
- 1998The Mute Girl of PorticiDirector
- 1998Sternstunde PhilosophieSelf
- 1998Happy EasterDirector
- 1998I Come Every Morning for SexDirector
- 1998Alpha ForumSelf
- 1998LebensläufeSelf
- 1998Learning Processes with a Deadly OutcomeDirector
- 1998Neonröhren des HimmelsDirector
- 1998100 Years of the German RhineDirector
- 1998Der schwedische MozartDirector
- 1998For VertovDirector
- 1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 SecondsDirector
- 1998"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"Director
- 1997The Poet as Metaphor SlingshotDirector
- 1997High on WorkDirector
- 1997The Day Is NighDirector
- 1996Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und liesDirector
- 1996"The Wind Will Clean It Off"Director
- 1996Epic Theater & Post-heroic ManagementDirector
- 1996Heiner Müller in Time FlightDirector
- 1996He Who Smokes Looks Cold-BloodedDirector
- 1996Chicago in Time LapseDirector
- 1996Engine CoughDirector
- 1995Camp MoneyDirector
- 1995Zoo Animals in WarDirector
- 1995Queen of Hearts on Judgment DayDirector
- 1995Kulturzeitself
- 1995On the Way to a Theater of DarknessesDirector
- 1995The Voice of the PlaywrightDirector
- 1995Omnivore DemocracyDirector
- 1995Love as PassionDirector
- 1995My Rendezvous with DeathDirector
- 1995The Night of the FilmmakersSelf
- 1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
- 1994Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?Director
- 1994The World is Not Bad, but FullDirector
- 1994I Owe the World a Dead PersonDirector
- 1994Die Rache der betrogenen BrautDirector
- 1994Die neun UnzertrennlichenDirector
- 1994Under the Sign of MarsDirector
- 1994Solange die Notenblätter reichenDirector
- 1994"80,000 Operas!"Director
- 1993Anti-OperaDirector
- 1993The Death of SenecaDirector
- 1993Plowshare of EvilDirector
- 1993Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small FishDirector
- 1993The Last of the MohicansDirector
- 1993Mind, Power, CastrationDirector
- 1992"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"Director
- 1992"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping ExcursionDirector
- 1992Frederick of PrussiaDirector
- 1992Soprano versus BassDirector
- 1991SnowwhiteRoseredSelf
- 1991“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”Director
- 1991Every Frozen Structure has its AcademyDirector
- 1991Soviet Patriots of 1941Director
- 1991Rome, as Far Away as the MoonDirector
- 1990Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre AnfängeDirector
- 1990Heiner Müller on Legal QuestionsDirector
- 1990Darwin and the TankDirector
- 1990Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing byDirector
- 1990Wild Night with MoonDirector
- 1990Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in MusicDirector
- 1989Conversation with Heiner Müller in GarathDirector
- 1989The Heart and the LegsSelf
- 1989Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th BirthdayDirector
- 1989Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschenSelf
- 1989Paper Tiger Television, New YorkDirector
- 1988The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White WomanDirector
- 1988The Pilot's SongDirector
- 1988The Death of LucretiaDirector
- 1988Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der PlötzlichkeitDirector
- 198810 vor 11Creator
- 1988Antiques of AdvertisingDirector
- 1988Madame Butterfly WaitsDirector
- 1988Why Are You Crying, Antonio?Director
- 1988JapanclipsDirector
- 1988Blue Hour Tango TimeDirector
- 1988Changing Time (Quickly)Director
- 1988The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal OutcomeDirector
- 1986Miscellaneous NewsDirector
- 1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of TimeDirector
- 1983Biermann-FilmDirector
- 1983Looking for a Practical and Realistic BehaviourDirector
- 1983The Power of EmotionDirector
- 1982War and PeaceDirector
- 1980The CandidateDirector
- 1979The Patriotic WomanDirector
- 1978Germany in AutumnDirector
- 1977People Preparing the Staufer AnniversaryDirector
- 1977Nachrichten von den StaufernDirector
- 1976Strongman FerdinandDirector
- 1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to DeathDirector
- 1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic SlaveDirector
- 1973The Journey to ViennaWriter
- 1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908Director
- 1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th FleetDirector
- 1971The Big MessDirector
- 1970Reform Circus
- 1970The Indomitable Leni PeickertDirector
- 1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)Producer
- 1970A Doctor From HaberstadtDirector
- 1968Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedDirector
- 1968Die Erben von Papas Kino
- 1968E. A. Winterstein, Fire ExtinguisherDirector
- 1967Yesterday GirlDirector
- 1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmtDirector
- 1966News from the 1966 Venice Film FestivalDirector
- 1966A Poker GameDirector
- 1965...Geist und ein wenig GlückHimself
- 1965Policeman's LotDirector
- 1964Grimme AwardSelf
- 1963Protocol of a RevolutionDirector
- 1963Lehrer im WandelDirector
- 1961Brutality in StoneDirector
- 1961RennenDirector
- 1961RennfahrerDirector
- 1961Thema AmoreDirector
- 1959The Indian TombAssistant Director
- 1959The Tiger of EschnapurAssistant Director
- 1951German Film AwardSelf
- 1948BambiSelf
- —Finite and Infinite GamesHimself
- —At Work in the Ruins of MoralityDirector
- —Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?Director
- —Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 BeispieleDirector
- —Spinoza und die Modi GottesDirector
- —Love in a spacesuitDirector
- —The most beautiful treasure of evolutionDirector
- —Amok. Das Ende der EinfühlungDirector
- —Clinton's Chief EconomistDirector
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