Alexander Kluge
View on IMDb ↗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
Bambi
Precht
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
The Night of the Filmmakers
The Klimperclown
druckfrisch
SnowwhiteRosered
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
KulturzeitFilmography (36)
- 2025
The KlimperclownSelf - 2022
Come with Me to the Cinema – The GregorsSelf - 2020
Wim Wenders, DesperadoSelf (archive footage) - 2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other UtopiasSelf - 2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the PicturesSelf
- 2017
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmSelf - 2017
Dancing with PicturesHimself - 2017
An Opera of the WorldHimself - 2016
On the Holy Spirit - 2013
Theorie der ErzählungHimself - 2012
PrechtSelf - 2011
Nuits transparentes - 2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseSelf - 2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the FilmmakersSelf (uncredited) - 2007
Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsSelf - 2003
druckfrischself - 2002
Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen AusgangSelf - 2001
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!Self - Narrator (voice) - 2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
- 2000Literatur im Foyerhimself
- 1998Alpha ForumSelf
- 1998LebensläufeSelf
- 1998Sternstunde PhilosophieSelf
- 1995
The Night of the FilmmakersSelf - 1995
Kulturzeitself - 1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
- 1991
SnowwhiteRoseredSelf - 1989The Heart and the LegsSelf
- 1989
Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschenSelf - 1970Reform Circus
- 1968
Die Erben von Papas Kino - 1965
...Geist und ein wenig GlückHimself - 1964Grimme AwardSelf
- 1951German Film AwardSelf
- 1948
BambiSelf - —
Finite and Infinite GamesHimself
Crew (226)
- 2026Die Liebe stört der kalte TodDirector
- 2026Utopie der OperDirector
- 2026Heterotopie der OperDirector
- 2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929Screenplay
- 2025Primitive DiversityProduction Design
- 2024Cosmic MiniaturesDirector
- 2024Planetary ManDirector
- 2024Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)Director
- 2024Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and SociologistDirector
- 2024An Opera That Sparked a RevolutionDirector
- 2024Attack on a Thick Glass DoorDirector
- 2024String Cinema – Mathematical Minute OperaDirector
- 2024Happy Root From Non-IdentityDirector
- 2024Beginnings of Film ArtDirector
- 2023Lied der MedeaScreenplay
- 2022In the Rock of SignsDirector
- 2022Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)Director
- 2021OrpheaProducer
- 2021Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os CanibaisDirector
- 2021Zirkus, Richter’s TangoDirector
- 2020The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941Director
- 2020The Leaks of VeniceProducer
- 2020Werewolves PlayoffsDirector
- 2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen RevolutionWriter
- 2020Trump State VisitWriter
- 2019Veränderung ist das Salz des VergnügensDirector
- 2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum ErdmittelpunktScreenplay
- 2018The Revolution is a Creature Full of SurprisesDirector
- 2018We Philosophers from Eve’s RibDirector
- 2018Happy LamentoScreenplay
- 2018Der Zirkus kommt in die StadtWriter
- 2018Zirkus im KriegWriter
- 2017Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues EndeDirector
- 2017Reason is a Balancing AnimalDirector
- 2017Parsifal verlernenDirector
- 2017Der Gärtner von NürnbergProducer
- 2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?Screenplay
- 2015Fassbinder's FuneralDirector
- 2014Moby Dick – Godzilla – FukushimaDirector
- 2014Light VeinsDirector
- 2014Nachrichten vom Großen KriegDirector
- 2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer HandWriter
- 2012Rigor Was His Mark of QualityDirector
- 2012Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander KlugeDirector
- 2011Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachenDirector
- 2009Früchte des VertrauensDirector
- 2009Der Deutschland-KomplexDirector
- 2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The CapitalDirector
- 2008Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der MaterieDirector
- 2008Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"Director
- 2008Headless ManDirector
- 2008The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an InitiativeDirector
- 2008RaubengelDirector
- 2008Sense below the SenseDirector
- 2008Evolution in the UniverseDirector
- 2008Man is the Soft TargetDirector
- 2008Who Am "I"? Peer GyntDirector
- 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
- 2007"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"Director
- 2007The Bridge CrosserDirector
- 2007"The Burning Giraffe"Director
- 2007War is the End of all PlansDirector
- 2007The Magical World of EvolutionDirector
- 2007The Car is your Second SkinDirector
- 2007The Safety of the PresidentDirector
- 2007The DeterrentDirector
- 2007The Opera DoctorDirector
- 2006Die Frau auf dem SchlachtfeldWriter
- 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
- 2006La PalomaDirector
- 200616 Minute-filmsDirector
- 2006Sam Remembers Papa KongDirector
- 2006Serpentine Gallery ProgramDirector
- 2006Primal Ocean and Snowball EarthDirector
- 2006On Laughing and Walking UprightDirector
- 2006Flexible MemoryDirector
- 2006Borderline Cases of Damage ControlDirector
- 2005The Officer as a PhilosopherDirector
- 2005As a Military Judge in November 1918Director
- 2005Women as WarriorsDirector
- 2004Freedom for the Consonants!Director
- 2003A Woman Like a VolcanoDirector
- 2003Der Untergang der TitanicDirector
- 2003Rette sich, wer kannDirector
- 2003Only Cans Were SavedDirector
- 2003First the Music, then the WordsDirector
- 2002Nur Gott hat zugesehenDirector
- 2002N.Y. Ground ZeroDirector
- 2002A Farewell to the Secure Side of LifeDirector
- 2002What is War?Director
- 2001The Flexible EntrepreneurDirector
- 2001Attention: Total Loss!Director
- 2001True Love on the FrontDirector
- 2001The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!Director
- 2000The Execution of an ElephantDirector
- 2000August 1914Director
- 2000The Sahara Became SwamplandDirector
- 1999Spaceflight as an Internal ExperienceDirector
- 1999He Who Hopes, Dies SingingDirector
- 1999Postheroic ManagementDirector
- 1999The Belshazzar ProjectDirector
- 1999Snapshots for my FiancéDirector
- 1999"With all the Wealth of my Needs"Director
- 1998For VertovDirector
- 1998Learning Processes with a Deadly OutcomeDirector
- 1998Neonröhren des HimmelsDirector
- 1998100 Years of the German RhineDirector
- 1998Der schwedische MozartDirector
- 1998An Experiment in LoveDirector
- 1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 SecondsProducer
- 1998Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewaltDirector
- 1998Happy EasterDirector
- 1998"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"Director
- 1997The Day Is NighDirector
- 1997The Poet as Metaphor SlingshotDirector
- 1997High on WorkDirector
- 1996Chicago in Time LapseDirector
- 1996Engine CoughDirector
- 1996He Who Smokes Looks Cold-BloodedDirector
- 1996Heiner Müller in Time FlightDirector
- 1996Epic Theater & Post-heroic ManagementDirector
- 1996Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und liesDirector
- 1996"The Wind Will Clean It Off"Director
- 1995My Rendezvous with DeathDirector
- 1995The Voice of the PlaywrightDirector
- 1995Omnivore DemocracyDirector
- 1995On the Way to a Theater of DarknessesDirector
- 1995Queen of Hearts on Judgment DayDirector
- 1995Camp MoneyDirector
- 1995Zoo Animals in WarDirector
- 1994Under the Sign of MarsDirector
- 1994I Owe the World a Dead PersonDirector
- 1994The World is Not Bad, but FullDirector
- 1994Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?Director
- 1994Solange die Notenblätter reichenDirector
- 1994Die Rache der betrogenen BrautDirector
- 1994"80,000 Operas!"Director
- 1993Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small FishDirector
- 1993Mind, Power, CastrationDirector
- 1993The Last of the MohicansDirector
- 1993Plowshare of EvilDirector
- 1993The Death of SenecaDirector
- 1993Anti-OperaDirector
- 1992Frederick of PrussiaDirector
- 1992"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping ExcursionDirector
- 1992"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"Director
- 1991Rome, as Far Away as the MoonDirector
- 1991Every Frozen Structure has its AcademyDirector
- 1991“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”Director
- 1991Soviet Patriots of 1941Director
- 1990Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing byDirector
- 1990Heiner Müller on Legal QuestionsDirector
- 1990Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre AnfängeWriter
- 1990Wild Night with MoonDirector
- 1990Darwin and the TankDirector
- 1990Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in MusicDirector
- 1989Paper Tiger Television, New YorkDirector
- 1989Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th BirthdayDirector
- 1989Conversation with Heiner Müller in GarathDirector
- 1988The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White WomanDirector
- 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
- 1988Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der PlötzlichkeitDirector
- 1988Das LiegerliedDirector
- 198810 vor 11Creator
- 1986Miscellaneous NewsWriter
- 1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of TimeWriter
- 1983Biermann-FilmDirector
- 1983Looking for a Practical and Realistic BehaviourWriter
- 1983The Power of EmotionWriter
- 1982War and PeaceWriter
- 1980The CandidateWriter
- 1979The Patriotic WomanWriter
- 1978Germany in AutumnScreenplay
- 1977Nachrichten von den StaufernWriter
- 1977People Preparing the Staufer AnniversaryWriter
- 1976Strongman FerdinandWriter
- 1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to DeathWriter
- 1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908Writer
- 1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic SlaveWriter
- 1973The Journey to ViennaWriter
- 1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th FleetWriter
- 1971The Big MessWriter
- 1970A Doctor From HaberstadtWriter
- 1970The Indomitable Leni PeickertWriter
- 1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)Producer
- 1968E. A. Winterstein, Fire ExtinguisherWriter
- 1968Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedProducer
- 1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmtWriter
- 1967Yesterday GirlShort Story
- 1966News from the 1966 Venice Film FestivalDirector
- 1966A Poker GameEditor
- 1965Policeman's LotWriter
- 1963Lehrer im WandelWriter
- 1963Protocol of a RevolutionWriter
- 1961RennenDirector
- 1961Brutality in StoneProducer
- 1961RennfahrerProducer
- 1961Thema AmoreWriter
- 1959The Tiger of EschnapurAssistant Director
- 1959The Indian TombAssistant Director
- —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
- —Die neun UnzertrennlichenDirector
- —Amok. Das Ende der EinfühlungDirector
- —Clinton's Chief EconomistDirector