Alexander Kluge
- Directing
- February 14, 1932 · Halberstadt, Germany
- March 25, 2026
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
- Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 · Director, Producer
- Heterotopie der Oper · Director
- Utopie der Oper · Director
- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod · Cinematography, Editing
- The Klimperclown · Self
- Primitive Diversity · Director, Writer
- Beginnings of Film Art · Director
- An Opera That Sparked a Revolution · Director
- Attack on a Thick Glass Door · Director
- Planetary Man · Director
- Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) · Director
- String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera · Director
- Happy Root From Non-Identity · Director
- Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist · Director
- Cosmic Miniatures · Director
- Lied der Medea · Director, Producer
- Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors · Self
- Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) · Director
- In the Rock of Signs · Director
- Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais · Director
- Orphea · Director, Writer
- Zirkus, Richter’s Tango · Director
- Wim Wenders, Desperado · Self
- Werewolves Playoffs · Director
- The Leaks of Venice · Producer
- The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 · Director
- Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution · Director, Producer
- Trump State Visit · Director, Producer
- Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens · Director
- Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt · Director, Producer
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt · Director, Producer
- Happy Lamento · Director, Screenplay
- The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises · Director
- Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias · Self
- We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib · Director
- Zirkus im Krieg · Director, Producer
- Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures · Self
- An Opera of the World · Self
- Parsifal verlernen · Director
- Dancing with Pictures · Self, Director
- Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film · Self, Director
- Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende · Director
- Reason is a Balancing Animal · Director
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg · Director, Screenplay
- On the Holy Spirit
- Fassbinder's Funeral · Director
- "They killed our friends..." · Director
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? · Director, Producer
- Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg · Director
- Light Veins · Director
- Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima · Director
- Theorie der Erzählung · Self, Director
- Rigor Was His Mark of Quality · Director
- Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand · Director, Writer
- Precht · Self
- Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge · Director
- Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen · Director
- Nuits transparentes
- Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse · Self, Director
- Früchte des Vertrauens · Director
- Der Deutschland-Komplex · Director
- Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" · Director
- News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital · Director
- Fifi · Director
- The Siamese Hands · Director
- Sense below the Sense · Director
- Headless Man · Director
- The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative · Director
- Raubengel · Director
- Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt · Director
- Evolution in the Universe · Director
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers · Self
- Man is the Soft Target · Director
- Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie · Director
- Multiple Images for Five Projectors · Self, Director
- What Does "Good Will" Mean? · Director
- The Safety of the President · Director
- The Bridge Crosser · Director
- The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts · Director
- The Car is your Second Skin · Director