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Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) is 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.

Et billede af Alexander Kluge

Directing

1959

[ ] The Indian Tomb (Assistant Director)
[ ] The Tiger of Eschnapur (Assistant Director)

1961

[ ] Brutality in Stone (Director)
[ ] Rennen (Director)
[ ] Thema Amore (Director)
[ ] Rennfahrer (Director)

1963

[ ] Protocol of a Revolution (Director)
[ ] Lehrer im Wandel (Director)

1965

[ ] Policeman's Lot (Director)

1966

[ ] News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (Director)
[ ] A Poker Game (Director)

1967

[ ] Yesterday Girl (Director)
[ ] Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (Director)

1968

[ ] Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Director)
[ ] E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (Director)

1970

[ ] The Indomitable Leni Peickert (Director)
[ ] A Doctor From Haberstadt (Director)

1971

[ ] The Big Mess (Director)

1972

[ ] Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (Director)

1973

[ ] Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Director)
[ ] Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (Director)

1974

[ ] In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (Director)

1976

[ ] Strongman Ferdinand (Director)

1977

[ ] People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (Director)
[ ] Nachrichten von den Staufern (Director)

1978

[ W ] Germany in Autumn (Director)

1979

[ ] The Patriotic Woman (Director)

1980

[ ] The Candidate (Director)

1982

[ ] War and Peace (Director)

1983

[ ] The Power of Emotion (Director)
[ ] Biermann-Film (Director)
[ ] Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (Director)

1985

[ ] The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (Director)

1986

[ ] Miscellaneous News (Director)

1988

[ ] The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman (Director)

1989

[ ] Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday (Director)
[ ] Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath (Director)
[ ] Paper Tiger Television, New York (Director)

1990

[ ] Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by (Director)
[ ] Heiner Müller on Legal Questions (Director)
[ ] Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge (Director)
[ ] Wild Night with Moon (Director)

1991

[ ] Rome, as Far Away as the Moon (Director)
[ ] “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” (Director)
[ ] Every Frozen Structure has its Academy (Director)

1992

[ ] Frederick of Prussia (Director)

1993

[ ] Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish (Director)
[ ] Mind, Power, Castration (Director)
[ ] The Last of the Mohicans (Director)
[ ] Anti-Opera (Director)
[ ] Plowshare of Evil (Director)
[ ] The Death of Seneca (Director)

1994

[ ] Under the Sign of Mars (Director)
[ ] The World is Not Bad, but Full (Director)
[ ] I Owe the World a Dead Person (Director)

1995

[ ] Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (Director)
[ ] My Rendezvous with Death (Director)
[ ] Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day (Director)
[ ] Omnivore Democracy (Director)
[ ] The Voice of the Playwright (Director)
[ ] On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses (Director)

1996

[ ] Chicago in Time Lapse (Director)
[ ] Engine Cough (Director)
[ ] Heiner Müller in Time Flight (Director)
[ ] He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded (Director)
[ ] Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management (Director)

1997

[ ] The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot (Director)
[ ] The Day Is Nigh (Director)

1998

[ ] Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome (Director)
[ ] Neonröhren des Himmels (Director)
[ ] 100 Years of the German Rhine (Director)
[ ] Der schwedische Mozart (Director)
[ ] For Vertov (Director)
[ ] An Experiment in Love (Director)
[ ] Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (Director)

1999

[ ] He Who Hopes, Dies Singing (Director)
[ ] Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (Director)

2000

[ ] Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (Director)
[ ] The Execution of an Elephant (Director)

2001

[ ] The Flexible Entrepreneur (Director)
[ ] Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard (Director)

2003

[ ] A Woman Like a Volcano (Director)

2005

[ ] The Officer as a Philosopher (Director)

2006

[ ] Sad News (Director)
[ ] Das gab’s nur einmal (Director)
[ ] La Habanera (Director)
[ ] Storm Over Egypt (Director)
[ ] The Deadly Triangle (Director)
[ ] The Trickiness of Peace Treaties (Director)
[ ] Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer (Director)
[ ] Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde (Director)
[ ] Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (Director)
[ ] La Paloma (Director)
[ ] 16 Minute-films (Director)
[ ] Sam Remembers Papa Kong (Director)

2007

[ ] Das Phänomen der Oper (Director)
[ ] The Poetic Power of Theory (Director)
[ ] Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! (Director)
[ ] Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes (Director)
[ ] The Magic of the Darkened Soul (Director)
[ ] Multiple Images for Five Projectors (Director)

2008

[ ] Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital (Director)
[ ] Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie (Director)
[ ] Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" (Director)

2009

[ ] Der Deutschland-Komplex (Director)
[ ] Früchte des Vertrauens (Director)

2010

[ ] Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (Director)

2011

[ ] Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen (Director)

2012

[ ] Rigor Was His Mark of Quality (Director)
[ ] Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (Director)
[ ] Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge (Director)

2013

[ ] Theorie der Erzählung (Director)

2014

[ ] Light Veins (Director)
[ ] Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg (Director)
[ ] Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima (Director)

2017

[ ] Dancing with Pictures (Director)
[ ] Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (Director)
[ ] Parsifal verlernen (Director)

2018

[ ] The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises (Director)
[ ] We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib (Director)
[ ] Happy Lamento (Director)

2019

[ ] Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens (Director)

2020

[ ] The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 (Director)
[ ] Werewolves Playoffs (Director)

2021

[ ] Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais (Director)
[ ] Zirkus, Richter’s Tango (Director)
[ ] Orphea (Director)

2022

[ ] In the Rock of Signs (Director)
[ ] Reason is a Balancing Animal (Director)
[ ] Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) (Director)

2024

[ ] Cosmic Miniatures (Director)
[ ] Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) (Director)
[ ] Planetary Man (Director)
[ ] Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist (Director)
[ ] An Opera That Sparked a Revolution (Director)
[ ] Attack on a Thick Glass Door (Director)
[ ] String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera (Director)
[ ] Happy Root From Non-Identity (Director)
[ ] Beginnings of Film Art (Director)

2025

[ ] Primitive Diversity (Director)

????

[ ] At Work in the Ruins of Morality (Director)
[ ] Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende (Director)
[ ] Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode? (Director)
[ ] Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele (Director)

Writing

1961

[ ] Brutality in Stone (Writer)
[ ] Thema Amore (Writer)

1963

[ ] Lehrer im Wandel (Writer)
[ ] Protocol of a Revolution (Writer)

1965

[ ] Policeman's Lot (Writer)

1967

[ ] Yesterday Girl (Writer)
[ ] Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (Writer)
[ ] Yesterday Girl (Short Story)

1968

[ ] Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Writer)
[ ] E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (Writer)

1970

[ ] The Indomitable Leni Peickert (Writer)
[ ] A Doctor From Haberstadt (Writer)

1971

[ ] The Big Mess (Writer)

1972

[ ] Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (Writer)

1973

[ ] The Journey to Vienna (Writer)
[ ] Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Writer)
[ ] Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (Writer)

1974

[ ] In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (Writer)

1976

[ ] Strongman Ferdinand (Writer)

1977

[ ] People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (Writer)
[ ] Nachrichten von den Staufern (Writer)

1978

[ W ] Germany in Autumn (Screenplay)

1979

[ ] The Patriotic Woman (Writer)

1980

[ ] The Candidate (Writer)

1982

[ ] War and Peace (Writer)

1983

[ ] Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (Writer)
[ ] The Power of Emotion (Writer)

1985

[ ] The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (Writer)

1986

[ ] Miscellaneous News (Writer)

1990

[ ] Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge (Writer)

2006

[ ] Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (Writer)

2012

[ ] Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (Writer)

2018

[ ] Happy Lamento (Screenplay)

2021

[ ] Orphea (Writer)

2025

[ ] Primitive Diversity (Writer)

Production

1961

[ ] Brutality in Stone (Producer)
[ ] Rennfahrer (Producer)

1967

[ ] Yesterday Girl (Producer)

1968

[ ] Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Producer)

1970

[ ] Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (Producer)

1998

[ ] Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (Producer)

2020

[ ] The Leaks of Venice (Producer)

2021

[ ] Orphea (Producer)

2025

[ ] Primitive Diversity (Producer)

Editing

1966

[ ] A Poker Game (Editor)

2025

[ ] Primitive Diversity (Editor)

Sound

2025

[ ] Primitive Diversity (Sound Designer)

Camera

2025

[ ] Primitive Diversity (Director of Photography)

Art

2025

[ ] Primitive Diversity (Production Design)

Actor

1965

[ ] ...Geist und ein wenig Glück (Himself)

1968

[ ] Die Erben von Papas Kino (????)

1970

[ ] Reform Circus (????)

1989

[ ] The Heart and the Legs (Self)
[ ] Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen (Self)

1991

[ ] SnowwhiteRosered (Self)

1995

[ ] The Night of the Filmmakers (Self)
[ ] Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (????)

2000

[ ] Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (????)

2002

[ ] Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang (Self)

2007

[ ] Multiple Images for Five Projectors (Self)

2008

[ ] Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (Self (uncredited))

2010

[ ] Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (Self)

2011

[ ] Nuits transparentes (????)

2013

[ ] Theorie der Erzählung (Himself)

2016

[ ] On the Holy Spirit (????)

2017

[ ] Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (Self)
[ ] Dancing with Pictures (Himself)
[ ] An Opera of the World (Himself)
[ ] Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures (Self)

2018

[ ] Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (Self)

2020

[ ] Wim Wenders, Desperado (Self (archive footage))

2022

[ ] Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (Self)

2025

[ ] The Klimperclown (Self)

????

[ ] Finite and Infinite Games (Himself)