Alexander Kluge

Biography

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.

Known for

Precht

2 September 2012

The Night of the Filmmakers

12 February 1995

SnowwhiteRosered

24 October 1991

Wim Wenders, Desperado

16 July 2020

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

11 February 2008

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

17 February 2018

Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
—	Finite and Infinite Games	Himself
2022	Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors	Alexander Kluge
2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self (archive footage)
2018	Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias	Self
2017	Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern	Self
2017	Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film	Self
2017	Dancing with Pictures	Himself
2017	An Opera of the World	Himself
2016	On the Holy Spirit
2013	Theorie der Erzählung	Himself
2012	Precht	Self
2011	Nuits transparentes
2010	Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse	Self
2008	Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers	Self (uncredited)
2007	Multiple Images for Five Projectors	Self
2003	druckfrisch	self
2002	All Feelings Believe in a Happy Ending	Self
2000	Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
2000	Literatur im Foyer	himself
1998	Alpha Forum	Self
1998	Lebensläufe	Self
1995	The Night of the Filmmakers	Self
1995	Kulturzeit	self
1995	Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1991	SnowwhiteRosered	Self
1989	The Heart and the Legs	Self
1970	Reform Circus
1968	Die Erben von Papas Kino
1965	...Geist und ein wenig Glück	Himself
1964	Grimme-Preis-Verleihung	Self
1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self
1948	Bambi Awards	Self

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
—	Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele	Director
—	Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?	Director
2024	Planetary Man	Director
2024	Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)	Director
2024	Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist	Director
2024	An Opera That Sparked a Revolution	Director
2024	Attack on a Thick Glass Door	Director
2024	String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera	Director
2024	Happy Root From Non-Identity	Director
2024	Beginnings of Film Art	Director
2022	In the Rock of Signs	Director
2022	Reason is a Balancing Animal	Director
2022	Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)	Director
2021	Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais	Director
2021	Zirkus, Richter’s Tango	Director
2020	The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941	Director
2020	The Leaks of Venice	Producer
2020	Werewolves Playoffs	Director
2019	Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens	Director
2018	The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises	Director
2018	We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib	Director
2018	Happy Lamento	Director
2018	Happy Lamento	Screenplay
2017	Dancing with Pictures	Director
2017	Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film	Director
2017	Parsifal verlernen	Director
2014	Light Veins	Director
2014	News from the Great War	Director
2014	Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima	Director
2013	Theorie der Erzählung	Director
2007	Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!	Director
—	Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende	Director
2012	Rigor Was His Mark of Quality	Director
2012	Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge	Director
2011	Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen	Director
2010	Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse	Director
2009	Früchte des Vertrauens	Director
2009	Der Deutschland-Komplex	Director
2007	Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes	Director
2007	Das Phänomen der Oper	Director
2007	The Magic of the Darkened Soul	Director
2007	The Poetic Power of Theory	Director
2007	Multiple Images for Five Projectors	Director
2000	Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard	Director
1998	An Experiment in Love	Director
1997	The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot	Director
1996	He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded	Director
1996	Heiner Müller in Time Flight	Director
1996	Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management	Director
1995	My Rendezvous with Death	Director
1995	The Voice of the Playwright	Director
1995	Omnivore Democracy	Director
1995	On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses	Director
1995	Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day	Director
1994	Under the Sign of Mars	Director
1994	I Owe the World a Dead Person	Director
1994	The World is Not Bad, but Full	Director
1993	Mind, Power, Castration	Director
1993	The Last of the Mohicans	Director
1993	Plowshare of Evil	Director
1993	The Death of Seneca	Director
1993	Anti-Opera	Director
1992	Frederick of Prussia	Director
1991	Rome, as Far Away as the Moon	Director
1991	Every Frozen Structure has its Academy	Director
1991	“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”	Director
1990	Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by	Director
1990	Heiner Müller on Legal Questions	Director
1990	Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge	Director
1989	Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday	Director
1989	Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath	Director
1988	The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman	Director
1977	Nachrichten von den Staufern	Director
1977	Nachrichten von den Staufern	Writer
1970	Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)	Producer
—	At Work in the Ruins of Morality	Director
2024	Cosmic Miniatures	Director
2021	Orphea	Director
2021	Orphea	Writer
2021	Orphea	Producer
2012	Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand	Director
2012	Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand	Writer
2008	News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – The Capital	Director
2008	Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie	Director
2008	Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"	Director
2006	Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld	Director
2006	Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld	Writer
2006	Sad News	Director
2006	Das gab’s nur einmal	Director
2006	La Habanera	Director
2006	Storm Over Egypt	Director
2006	The Deadly Triangle	Director
2006	The Trickiness of Peace Treaties	Director
2006	Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde	Director
2006	Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer	Director
2006	La Paloma	Director
2006	16 Minute-films	Director
2006	Sam Remembers Papa Kong	Director
2005	The Officer as a Philosopher	Director
2003	A Woman Like a Volcano	Director
2001	The Flexible Entrepreneur	Director
2001	Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard	Director
2000	The Execution of an Elephant	Director
1999	Spaceflight as an Internal Experience	Director
1999	He Who Hopes, Dies Singing	Director
1998	For Vertov	Director
1998	Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome	Director
1998	Neonröhren des Himmels	Director
1998	100 Years of the German Rhine	Director
1998	Der schwedische Mozart	Director
1998	Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds	Director
1998	Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds	Producer
1997	The Day Is Nigh	Director
1996	Chicago in Time Lapse	Director
1996	Engine Cough	Director
1995	Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”	Director
1993	Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish	Director
1990	Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge	Writer
1989	Paper Tiger Television, New York	Director
1986	Miscellaneous News	Director
1986	Miscellaneous News	Writer
1985	The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time	Director
1985	The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time	Writer
1983	The Power of Emotion	Director
1983	Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour	Director
1983	Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour	Writer
1983	The Power of Emotion	Writer
1983	Biermann-Film	Director
1982	Krieg und Frieden	Director
1982	Krieg und Frieden	Writer
1980	The Candidate	Director
1980	The Candidate	Writer
1979	The Patriotic Woman	Director
1979	The Patriotic Woman	Writer
1978	Germany in Autumn	Director
1978	Germany in Autumn	Screenplay
1977	People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary	Director
1977	People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary	Writer
1976	Strongman Ferdinand	Director
1976	Strongman Ferdinand	Writer
1974	In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death	Director
1974	In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death	Writer
1973	Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave	Director
1973	Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave	Writer
1973	Die Reise nach Wien	Writer
1973	Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908	Director
1973	Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908	Writer
1972	Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet	Director
1972	Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet	Writer
1971	The Big Mess	Director
1971	The Big Mess	Writer
1970	The Indomitable Leni Peickert	Director
1970	The Indomitable Leni Peickert	Writer
1970	A Doctor From Haberstadt	Director
1970	A Doctor From Haberstadt	Writer
1968	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Director
1968	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Writer
1968	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Producer
1968	E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher	Director
1968	E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher	Writer
1967	Yesterday Girl	Director
1967	Yesterday Girl	Writer
1967	Yesterday Girl	Producer
1967	Yesterday Girl	Short Story
1967	Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt	Director
1967	Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt	Writer
1966	News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival	Director
1966	A Poker Game	Director
1966	A Poker Game	Editor
1965	Policeman's Lot	Director
1965	Policeman's Lot	Writer
1963	Lehrer im Wandel	Director
1963	Lehrer im Wandel	Writer
1963	Protocol of a Revolution	Director
1963	Protocol of a Revolution	Writer
1961	Brutality in Stone	Director
1961	Brutality in Stone	Writer
1961	Brutality in Stone	Producer
1961	Rennen	Director
1961	Rennfahrer	Director
1961	Rennfahrer	Producer
1961	Thema Amore	Director
1961	Thema Amore	Writer
1959	The Tiger of Eschnapur	Assistant Director
1959	The Indian Tomb	Assistant Director