
About
Alexander Kluge
Overview
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
Acting |
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2025 | The Klimperclown | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2022 | Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors | Actor | Alexander Kluge | N/A N/A |
2020 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
2018 | Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2017 | Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2017 | An Opera of the World | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2017 | Dancing with Pictures | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2017 | Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2016 | On the Holy Spirit | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2013 | Theorie der Erzählung | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2011 | Nuits transparentes | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2008 | Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers | Actor | Self (uncredited) | 58 Average |
2007 | Multiple Images for Five Projectors | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2002 | Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2000 | Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1995 | The Night of the Filmmakers | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
1995 | Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1991 | SnowwhiteRosered | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1989 | The Heart and the Legs | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1989 | Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1970 | Reform Circus | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1968 | Die Erben von Papas Kino | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1965 | ...Geist und ein wenig Glück | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
Directing |
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2025 | Primitive Diversity | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | Beginnings of Film Art | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | An Opera That Sparked a Revolution | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | Attack on a Thick Glass Door | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | Planetary Man | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | Happy Root From Non-Identity | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | Cosmic Miniatures | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2022 | Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2022 | Reason is a Balancing Animal | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2022 | In the Rock of Signs | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2021 | Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2021 | Orphea | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2021 | Zirkus, Richter’s Tango | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2020 | Werewolves Playoffs | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2020 | The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2019 | Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2018 | Happy Lamento | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2018 | The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2018 | We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Parsifal verlernen | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Dancing with Pictures | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Light Veins | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2013 | Theorie der Erzählung | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Rigor Was His Mark of Quality | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2012 | Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Früchte des Vertrauens | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Der Deutschland-Komplex | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2008 | Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Multiple Images for Five Projectors | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | The Poetic Power of Theory | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Das Phänomen der Oper | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | The Magic of the Darkened Soul | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | 16 Minute-films | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | The Deadly Triangle | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Das gab’s nur einmal | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | La Habanera | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | La Paloma | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Sad News | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2006 | Sam Remembers Papa Kong | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Storm Over Egypt | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | The Trickiness of Peace Treaties | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2005 | The Officer as a Philosopher | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2003 | A Woman Like a Volcano | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2001 | Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2001 | The Flexible Entrepreneur | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2000 | Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2000 | The Execution of an Elephant | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1999 | Spaceflight as an Internal Experience | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1999 | He Who Hopes, Dies Singing | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | An Experiment in Love | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | Der schwedische Mozart | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | Neonröhren des Himmels | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | 100 Years of the German Rhine | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | For Vertov | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1997 | The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1997 | The Day Is Nigh | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1996 | Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1996 | Heiner Müller in Time Flight | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1996 | He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1996 | Chicago in Time Lapse | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1996 | Engine Cough | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | The Voice of the Playwright | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | Omnivore Democracy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | My Rendezvous with Death | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | The World is Not Bad, but Full | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | I Owe the World a Dead Person | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Under the Sign of Mars | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | Anti-Opera | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | The Death of Seneca | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | Plowshare of Evil | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | The Last of the Mohicans | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | Mind, Power, Castration | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1992 | Frederick of Prussia | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Every Frozen Structure has its Academy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Rome, as Far Away as the Moon | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1990 | Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1990 | Heiner Müller on Legal Questions | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1990 | Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Paper Tiger Television, New York | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1986 | Miscellaneous News | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1985 | The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1983 | Biermann-Film | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1983 | Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1983 | The Power of Emotion | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1982 | War and Peace | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1980 | The Candidate | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1979 | The Patriotic Woman | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1978 | Germany in Autumn | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1977 | People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1977 | Nachrichten von den Staufern | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1976 | Strongman Ferdinand | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1974 | In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1973 | Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1973 | Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1972 | Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1971 | The Big Mess | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1970 | The Indomitable Leni Peickert | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1970 | A Doctor From Haberstadt | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1968 | Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1968 | E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1967 | Yesterday Girl | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1967 | Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1966 | News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1966 | A Poker Game | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1965 | Policeman's Lot | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1963 | Protocol of a Revolution | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1963 | Lehrer im Wandel | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1961 | Brutality in Stone | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1961 | Thema Amore | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1961 | Rennen | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1961 | Rennfahrer | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1959 | The Indian Tomb | Directing | Assistant Director | 59 Average |
1959 | The Tiger of Eschnapur | Directing | Assistant Director | 59 Average |
Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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At Work in the Ruins of Morality | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode? | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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2025 | Primitive Diversity | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2021 | Orphea | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
2018 | Happy Lamento | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
2012 | Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
2006 | Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1990 | Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1986 | Miscellaneous News | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1985 | The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1983 | Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1983 | The Power of Emotion | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1982 | War and Peace | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1980 | The Candidate | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1979 | The Patriotic Woman | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1978 | Germany in Autumn | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1977 | People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1977 | Nachrichten von den Staufern | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1976 | Strongman Ferdinand | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1974 | In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1973 | Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1973 | Die Reise nach Wien | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1973 | Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1972 | Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1971 | The Big Mess | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1970 | The Indomitable Leni Peickert | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1970 | A Doctor From Haberstadt | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1968 | Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1968 | E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1967 | Yesterday Girl | Writing | Short Story | 58 Average |
1967 | Yesterday Girl | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1967 | Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1965 | Policeman's Lot | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1963 | Protocol of a Revolution | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1963 | Lehrer im Wandel | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1961 | Brutality in Stone | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1961 | Thema Amore | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
Production |
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2021 | Orphea | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2020 | The Leaks of Venice | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1998 | Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1970 | Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1968 | Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1967 | Yesterday Girl | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1961 | Brutality in Stone | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1961 | Rennfahrer | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
Editing |
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1966 | A Poker Game | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |