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Alexander Kluge
- Born
- 1932-02-14
- Died
- 2026-03-25
- Birthplace
- Halberstadt, Germany
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.
Known For
Filmography
290 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
2026 · Movie
Director · Producer · Screenplay
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
2026 · Movie
Director of Photography · Editor · Director
Heterotopie der Oper
2026 · Movie
Director
Utopie der Oper
2026 · Movie
Director
Primitive Diversity
2025 · Movie
Director · Writer · Producer · Editor · Sound Designer · Director of Photography · Production Design
The Klimperclown
2025 · Movie
Self
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
2024 · Movie
Director
Attack on a Thick Glass Door
2024 · Movie
Director
Beginnings of Film Art
2024 · Movie
Director
Cosmic Miniatures
2024 · Movie
Director
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
2024 · Movie
Director
Happy Root From Non-Identity
2024 · Movie
Director
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
2024 · Movie
Director
Planetary Man
2024 · Movie
Director
String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
2024 · Movie
Director
Lied der Medea
2023 · Movie
Director · Producer · Screenplay
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022 · Movie
Self
In the Rock of Signs
2022 · Movie
Director
Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
2022 · Movie
Director
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
2021 · Movie
Director
Orphea
2021 · Movie
Director · Producer · Writer
Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
2021 · Movie
Director
Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution
2020 · Movie
Director · Producer · Writer
The Leaks of Venice
2020 · Movie
Producer
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
2020 · Movie
Director
Trump State Visit
2020 · Movie
Director · Producer · Writer
Werewolves Playoffs
2020 · Movie
Director
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
2019 · Movie
Director · Producer · Screenplay
Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
2019 · Movie
Director
Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
2018 · Movie
Director · Producer · Writer
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018 · Movie
Self
Happy Lamento
2018 · Movie
Director · Screenplay
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
2018 · Movie
Director
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
2018 · Movie
Director
Zirkus im Krieg
2018 · Movie
Director · Producer · Writer
An Opera of the World
2017 · Movie
Himself
Dancing with Pictures
2017 · Movie
Himself · Director
Der Gärtner von Nürnberg
2017 · Movie
Director · Screenplay · Producer
Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
2017 · Movie
Director
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
2017 · Movie
Self · Director
Parsifal verlernen
2017 · Movie
Director
Reason is a Balancing Animal
2017 · Movie
Director
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
2017 · Movie
Self
On the Holy Spirit
2016 · Movie
Cast
"They killed our friends..."
2015 · Movie
Director
Fassbinder's Funeral
2015 · Movie
Director
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
2015 · Movie
Director · Producer · Screenplay
Light Veins
2014 · Movie
Director
Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
2014 · Movie
Director
Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
2014 · Movie
Director
Theorie der Erzählung
2013 · Movie
Himself · Director
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
2012 · Movie
Director · Writer
Precht
2012 · TV Show
Self
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
2012 · Movie
Director
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
2012 · Movie
Director
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
2011 · Movie
Director
Nuits transparentes
2011 · Movie
Cast
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010 · Movie
Self · Director
Der Deutschland-Komplex
2009 · Movie
Director
Früchte des Vertrauens
2009 · Movie
Director
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008 · Movie
Self (uncredited)
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
2008 · Movie
Director
Evolution in the Universe
2008 · Movie
Director
Fifi
2008 · Movie
Director
Headless Man
2008 · Movie
Director
Man is the Soft Target
2008 · Movie
Director
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
2008 · Movie
Director
Raubengel
2008 · Movie
Director
Sense below the Sense
2008 · Movie
Director
The Siamese Hands
2008 · Movie
Director
The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative
2008 · Movie
Director
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
2008 · Movie
Director
Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt
2008 · Movie
Director
"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"
2007 · Movie
Director
"The Burning Giraffe"
2007 · Movie
Director
Das Phänomen der Oper
2007 · Movie
Director
I Lived for my Art
2007 · Movie
Director
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
2007 · Movie
Director
Love Makes You Perceptive!
2007 · Movie
Director
Megastars of the Art of Love
2007 · Movie
Director
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
2007 · Movie
Director
Multiple Images for Five Projectors
2007 · Movie
Self · Director
The Bridge Crosser
2007 · Movie
Director
The Car is your Second Skin
2007 · Movie
Director
The Deterrent
2007 · Movie
Director
The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts
2007 · Movie
Director
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
2007 · Movie
Director
The Magical World of Evolution
2007 · Movie
Director
The Opera Doctor
2007 · Movie
Director
The Poetic Power of Theory
2007 · Movie
Director
The Safety of the President
2007 · Movie
Director
War is the End of all Plans
2007 · Movie
Director
What Does "Good Will" Mean?
2007 · Movie
Director
16 Minute-films
2006 · Movie
Director
Borderline Cases of Damage Control
2006 · Movie
Director
Das gab’s nur einmal
2006 · Movie
Director
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
2006 · Movie
Writer · Director
Flexible Memory
2006 · Movie
Director
From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards
2006 · Movie
Director
La Habanera
2006 · Movie
Director
La Paloma
2006 · Movie
Director
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
2006 · Movie
Director
On Laughing and Walking Upright
2006 · Movie
Director
Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth
2006 · Movie
Director
Sad News
2006 · Movie
Director
Sam Remembers Papa Kong
2006 · Movie
Director
Serpentine Gallery Program
2006 · Movie
Director
Storm Over Egypt
2006 · Movie
Director
The Deadly Triangle
2006 · Movie
Director
The Greatest Treasure of Evolution
2006 · Movie
Director
The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
2006 · Movie
Director
"Surplus Value" & its Images
2005 · Movie
Director
As a Military Judge in November 1918
2005 · Movie
Director
The Black Market of Love
2005 · Movie
Director
The Moon Has Risen
2005 · Movie
Director
The Officer as a Philosopher
2005 · Movie
Director
Thinking for Oneself
2005 · Movie
Director
Women as Warriors
2005 · Movie
Director
A Tear for Every Drop of Blood
2004 · Movie
Director · Writer
Freedom for the Consonants!
2004 · Movie
Director
A Woman Like a Volcano
2003 · Movie
Director
Der Untergang der Titanic
2003 · Movie
Director
druckfrisch
2003 · TV Show
self
First the Music, then the Words
2003 · Movie
Director
Only Cans Were Saved
2003 · Movie
Director
Rette sich, wer kann
2003 · Movie
Director
A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life
2002 · Movie
Director
Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
2002 · Movie
Self
Darklings Sing Bass
2002 · Movie
Director
N.Y. Ground Zero
2002 · Movie
Director
Nur Gott hat zugesehen
2002 · Movie
Director
What is War?
2002 · Movie
Director
"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"
2001 · Movie
Director
Attention: Total Loss!
2001 · Movie
Director
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
2001 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice) · Director · Idea · Producer
Dance on the Volcano
2001 · Movie
Director
The Flexible Entrepreneur
2001 · Movie
Director
The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!
2001 · Movie
Director
The Kiss of Death
2001 · Movie
Director
True Love on the Front
2001 · Movie
Director
August 1914
2000 · Movie
Director
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
2000 · Movie
Cast · Director
Literatur im Foyer
2000 · TV Show
himself
The Execution of an Elephant
2000 · Movie
Director
The Sahara Became Swampland
2000 · Movie
Director
"With all the Wealth of my Needs"
1999 · Movie
Director
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
1999 · Movie
Director
My Love is Deeper than the Sea
1999 · Movie
Director
Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft
1999 · Movie
Director
Postheroic Management
1999 · Movie
Director
Snapshots for my Fiancé
1999 · Movie
Director
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
1999 · Movie
Director
The Belshazzar Project
1999 · Movie
Director
The Deluge
1999 · Movie
Director
"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"
1998 · Movie
Director
100 Years of the German Rhine
1998 · Movie
Director
Alpha Forum
1998 · TV Show
Self
An Experiment in Love
1998 · Movie
Director
Der schwedische Mozart
1998 · Movie
Director
Desire that Rules the World
1998 · Movie
Director
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
1998 · Movie
Director · Producer
For Vertov
1998 · Movie
Director
Happy Easter
1998 · Movie
Director
I Come Every Morning for Sex
1998 · Movie
Director
Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome
1998 · Movie
Director
Lebensläufe
1998 · TV Show
Self
Neonröhren des Himmels
1998 · Movie
Director
Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt
1998 · Movie
Director
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998 · TV Show
Self
The Mute Girl of Portici
1998 · Movie
Director
High on Work
1997 · Movie
Director
The Day Is Nigh
1997 · Movie
Director
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
1997 · Movie
Director
"The Wind Will Clean It Off"
1996 · Movie
Director
Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies
1996 · Movie
Director
Chicago in Time Lapse
1996 · Movie
Director
Engine Cough
1996 · Movie
Director
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
1996 · Movie
Director
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
1996 · Movie
Director
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
1996 · Movie
Director
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1995 · Movie
Cast · Director
Camp Money
1995 · Movie
Director
Kulturzeit
1995 · TV Show
self
Love as Passion
1995 · Movie
Director
My Rendezvous with Death
1995 · Movie
Director
Omnivore Democracy
1995 · Movie
Director
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
1995 · Movie
Director
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
1995 · Movie
Director
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995 · Movie
Self
The Voice of the Playwright
1995 · Movie
Director
Zoo Animals in War
1995 · Movie
Director
"80,000 Operas!"
1994 · Movie
Director
Die neun Unzertrennlichen
1994 · Movie
Director
Die Rache der betrogenen Braut
1994 · Movie
Director
I Owe the World a Dead Person
1994 · Movie
Director
Solange die Notenblätter reichen
1994 · Movie
Director
The World is Not Bad, but Full
1994 · Movie
Director
Under the Sign of Mars
1994 · Movie
Director
Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?
1994 · Movie
Director
Anti-Opera
1993 · Movie
Director
Mind, Power, Castration
1993 · Movie
Director
Plowshare of Evil
1993 · Movie
Director
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
1993 · Movie
Director
The Death of Seneca
1993 · Movie
Director
The Last of the Mohicans
1993 · Movie
Director
"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion
1992 · Movie
Director
"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"
1992 · Movie
Director
Frederick of Prussia
1992 · Movie
Director
Soprano versus Bass
1992 · Movie
Director
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
1991 · Movie
Director
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
1991 · Movie
Director
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
1991 · Movie
Director
SnowwhiteRosered
1991 · Movie
Self
Soviet Patriots of 1941
1991 · Movie
Director
Darwin and the Tank
1990 · Movie
Director
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
1990 · Movie
Director · Writer
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
1990 · Movie
Director
Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music
1990 · Movie
Director
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
1990 · Movie
Director
Wild Night with Moon
1990 · Movie
Director
Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen
1989 · Movie
Self
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
1989 · Movie
Director
Paper Tiger Television, New York
1989 · Movie
Director
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
1989 · Movie
Director
The Heart and the Legs
1989 · Movie
Self
10 vor 11
1988 · TV Show
Creator
Antiques of Advertising
1988 · Movie
Director
Blue Hour Tango Time
1988 · Movie
Director
Changing Time (Quickly)
1988 · Movie
Director
Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit
1988 · Movie
Director
Japanclips
1988 · Movie
Director
Madame Butterfly Waits
1988 · Movie
Director
The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome
1988 · Movie
Director
The Death of Lucretia
1988 · Movie
Director
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
1988 · Movie
Director
The Pilot's Song
1988 · Movie
Director
Why Are You Crying, Antonio?
1988 · Movie
Director
Miscellaneous News
1986 · Movie
Director · Writer
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
1985 · Movie
Director · Writer
Biermann-Film
1983 · Movie
Director
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
1983 · Movie
Director · Writer
The Power of Emotion
1983 · Movie
Director · Writer
War and Peace
1982 · Movie
Writer · Director
The Candidate
1980 · Movie
Writer · Director
The Patriotic Woman
1979 · Movie
Writer · Director
Germany in Autumn
1978 · Movie
Director · Screenplay
Nachrichten von den Staufern
1977 · Movie
Writer · Director
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
1977 · Movie
Director · Writer
Strongman Ferdinand
1976 · Movie
Director · Writer
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
1974 · Movie
Director · Writer
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
1973 · Movie
Writer · Director
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
1973 · Movie
Director · Writer
The Journey to Vienna
1973 · Movie
Writer
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
1972 · Movie
Director · Writer
The Big Mess
1971 · Movie
Writer · Director
A Doctor From Haberstadt
1970 · Movie
Writer · Director
Reform Circus
1970 · Movie
Cast
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
1970 · Movie
Director · Writer
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
1970 · Movie
Producer
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
1968 · Movie
Director · Writer · Producer
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968 · Movie
Cast
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
1968 · Movie
Director · Writer
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
1967 · Movie
Director · Writer
Yesterday Girl
1967 · Movie
Director · Writer · Producer · Short Story
A Poker Game
1966 · Movie
Editor · Director
News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
1966 · Movie
Director
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
1965 · Movie
Himself
Policeman's Lot
1965 · Movie
Director · Writer
Grimme Award
1964 · TV Show
Self
Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve
1964 · Movie
Director
Lehrer im Wandel
1963 · Movie
Director · Writer
Protocol of a Revolution
1963 · Movie
Director · Writer
Brutality in Stone
1961 · Movie
Director · Writer · Producer
Rennen
1961 · Movie
Director
Rennfahrer
1961 · Movie
Producer · Director
Thema Amore
1961 · Movie
Director · Writer
The Indian Tomb
1959 · Movie
Assistant Director
The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959 · Movie
Assistant Director
German Film Award
1951 · TV Show
Self
Bambi
1948 · TV Show
Self
Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung
Date unknown · Movie
Director
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
Date unknown · Movie
Director
Clinton's Chief Economist
Date unknown · Movie
Director
Finite and Infinite Games
Date unknown · Movie
Himself
Love in a spacesuit
Date unknown · Movie
Director
Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?
Date unknown · Movie
Director
Spinoza und die Modi Gottes
Date unknown · Movie
Director
The most beautiful treasure of evolution
Date unknown · Movie
Director
Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele
Date unknown · Movie
Director