Alexander Kluge
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.
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Films (279)
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
2026 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Heterotopie der Oper
2026 · Director
Utopie der Oper
2026 · Director
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
2026 · Director of Photography, Editor, Director
The Klimperclown
2025 · Self
Primitive Diversity
2025 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound Designer, Director of Photography, Production Design
Beginnings of Film Art
2024 · Director
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
2024 · Director
Attack on a Thick Glass Door
2024 · Director
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
2024 · Director
Planetary Man
2024 · Director
String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
2024 · Director
Happy Root From Non-Identity
2024 · Director
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
2024 · Director
Cosmic Miniatures
2024 · Director
Lied der Medea
2023 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022 · Self
Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
2022 · Director
In the Rock of Signs
2022 · Director
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
2021 · Director
Orphea
2021 · Director, Producer, Writer
Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
2021 · Director
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Werewolves Playoffs
2020 · Director
The Leaks of Venice
2020 · Producer
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
2020 · Director
Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution
2020 · Director, Producer, Writer
Trump State Visit
2020 · Director, Producer, Writer
Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
2019 · Director
Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
2019 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
2018 · Director, Producer, Writer
Happy Lamento
2018 · Director, Screenplay
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
2018 · Director
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018 · Self
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
2018 · Director
Zirkus im Krieg
2018 · Director, Producer, Writer
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
2017 · Self
An Opera of the World
2017 · Himself
Parsifal verlernen
2017 · Director
Dancing with Pictures
2017 · Himself, Director
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
2017 · Self, Director
Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
2017 · Director
Reason is a Balancing Animal
2017 · Director
Der Gärtner von Nürnberg
2017 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
On the Holy Spirit
2016
Fassbinder's Funeral
2015 · Director
"They killed our friends..."
2015 · Director
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
2015 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
2014 · Director
Light Veins
2014 · Director
Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
2014 · Director
Theorie der Erzählung
2013 · Himself, Director
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
2012 · Director
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
2012 · Director, Writer
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
2012 · Director
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
2011 · Director
Nuits transparentes
2011
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010 · Self, Director
Früchte des Vertrauens
2009 · Director
Der Deutschland-Komplex
2009 · Director
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
2008 · Director
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
2008 · Director
Fifi
2008 · Director
The Siamese Hands
2008 · Director
Sense below the Sense
2008 · Director
Headless Man
2008 · Director
The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative
2008 · Director
Raubengel
2008 · Director
Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt
2008 · Director
Evolution in the Universe
2008 · Director
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008 · Self (uncredited)
Man is the Soft Target
2008 · Director
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
2008 · Director
Multiple Images for Five Projectors
2007 · Self, Director
What Does "Good Will" Mean?
2007 · Director
The Safety of the President
2007 · Director
The Bridge Crosser
2007 · Director
The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts
2007 · Director
The Car is your Second Skin
2007 · Director
Megastars of the Art of Love
2007 · Director
The Magical World of Evolution
2007 · Director
The Deterrent
2007 · Director
War is the End of all Plans
2007 · Director
I Lived for my Art
2007 · Director
"The Burning Giraffe"
2007 · Director
"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"
2007 · Director
Love Makes You Perceptive!
2007 · Director
Das Phänomen der Oper
2007 · Director
The Poetic Power of Theory
2007 · Director
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
2007 · Director
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
2007 · Director
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
2007 · Director
The Opera Doctor
2007 · Director
On Laughing and Walking Upright
2006 · Director
Flexible Memory
2006 · Director
Serpentine Gallery Program
2006 · Director
Borderline Cases of Damage Control
2006 · Director
Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth
2006 · Director
16 Minute-films
2006 · Director
The Greatest Treasure of Evolution
2006 · Director
Sad News
2006 · Director
Das gab’s nur einmal
2006 · Director
La Habanera
2006 · Director
Storm Over Egypt
2006 · Director
The Deadly Triangle
2006 · Director
The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
2006 · Director
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
2006 · Director
From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards
2006 · Director
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
2006 · Writer, Director
La Paloma
2006 · Director
Sam Remembers Papa Kong
2006 · Director
"Surplus Value" & its Images
2005 · Director
As a Military Judge in November 1918
2005 · Director
Thinking for Oneself
2005 · Director
Women as Warriors
2005 · Director
The Black Market of Love
2005 · Director
The Moon Has Risen
2005 · Director
The Officer as a Philosopher
2005 · Director
Freedom for the Consonants!
2004 · Director
A Tear for Every Drop of Blood
2004 · Director, Writer
Only Cans Were Saved
2003 · Director
First the Music, then the Words
2003 · Director
Rette sich, wer kann
2003 · Director
Der Untergang der Titanic
2003 · Director
A Woman Like a Volcano
2003 · Director
Nur Gott hat zugesehen
2002 · Director
What is War?
2002 · Director
Darklings Sing Bass
2002 · Director
N.Y. Ground Zero
2002 · Director
A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life
2002 · Director
Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
2002 · Self
The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!
2001 · Director
Dance on the Volcano
2001 · Director
The Kiss of Death
2001 · Director
True Love on the Front
2001 · Director
"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"
2001 · Director
Attention: Total Loss!
2001 · Director
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
2001 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Idea, Producer
Le Businessman flexible
2001 · Director
The Sahara Became Swampland
2000 · Director
August 1914
2000 · Director
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
2000 · Director
The Execution of an Elephant
2000 · Director
The Deluge
1999 · Director
"With all the Wealth of my Needs"
1999 · Director
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
1999 · Director
Postheroic Management
1999 · Director
Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft
1999 · Director
Snapshots for my Fiancé
1999 · Director
My Love is Deeper than the Sea
1999 · Director
The Belshazzar Project
1999 · Director
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
1999 · Director
Desire that Rules the World
1998 · Director
Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt
1998 · Director
An Experiment in Love
1998 · Director
The Mute Girl of Portici
1998 · Director
Happy Easter
1998 · Director
I Come Every Morning for Sex
1998 · Director
Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome
1998 · Director
Neonröhren des Himmels
1998 · Director
100 Years of the German Rhine
1998 · Director
Der schwedische Mozart
1998 · Director
For Vertov
1998 · Director
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
1998 · Director, Producer
"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"
1998 · Director
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
1997 · Director
High on Work
1997 · Director
The Day Is Nigh
1997 · Director
Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies
1996 · Director
"The Wind Will Clean It Off"
1996 · Director
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
1996 · Director
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
1996 · Director
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
1996 · Director
Chicago in Time Lapse
1996 · Director
Engine Cough
1996 · Director
Camp Money
1995 · Director
Zoo Animals in War
1995 · Director
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
1995 · Director
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
1995 · Director
The Voice of the Playwright
1995 · Director
Omnivore Democracy
1995 · Director
Love as Passion
1995 · Director
My Rendezvous with Death
1995 · Director
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995 · Self
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1995 · Director
Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?
1994 · Director
The World is Not Bad, but Full
1994 · Director
I Owe the World a Dead Person
1994 · Director
Die Rache der betrogenen Braut
1994 · Director
Die neun Unzertrennlichen
1994 · Director
Under the Sign of Mars
1994 · Director
Solange die Notenblätter reichen
1994 · Director
"80,000 Operas!"
1994 · Director
Anti-Opera
1993 · Director
The Death of Seneca
1993 · Director
Plowshare of Evil
1993 · Director
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
1993 · Director
The Last of the Mohicans
1993 · Director
Mind, Power, Castration
1993 · Director
"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"
1992 · Director
"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion
1992 · Director
Frederick of Prussia
1992 · Director
Soprano versus Bass
1992 · Director
SnowwhiteRosered
1991 · Self
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
1991 · Director
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
1991 · Director
Soviet Patriots of 1941
1991 · Director
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
1991 · Director
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
1990 · Director, Writer
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
1990 · Director
Darwin and the Tank
1990 · Director
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
1990 · Director
Wild Night with Moon
1990 · Director
Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music
1990 · Director
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
1989 · Director
The Heart and the Legs
1989 · Self
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
1989 · Director
Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen
1989 · Self
Paper Tiger Television, New York
1989 · Director
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
1988 · Director
The Pilot's Song
1988 · Director
The Death of Lucretia
1988 · Director
Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit
1988 · Director
Antiques of Advertising
1988 · Director
Madame Butterfly Waits
1988 · Director
Why Are You Crying, Antonio?
1988 · Director
Japanclips
1988 · Director
Blue Hour Tango Time
1988 · Director
Changing Time (Quickly)
1988 · Director
The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome
1988 · Director
Miscellaneous News
1986 · Director, Writer
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
1985 · Director, Writer
Biermann-Film
1983 · Director
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
1983 · Director, Writer
The Power of Emotion
1983 · Director, Writer
War and Peace
1982 · Writer, Director
The Candidate
1980 · Writer, Director
The Patriotic Woman
1979 · Writer, Director
Germany in Autumn
1978 · Director, Screenplay
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
1977 · Director, Writer
Nachrichten von den Staufern
1977 · Writer, Director
Strongman Ferdinand
1976 · Director, Writer
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
1974 · Director, Writer
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
1973 · Director, Writer
The Journey to Vienna
1973 · Writer
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
1973 · Writer, Director
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
1972 · Director, Writer
The Big Mess
1971 · Writer, Director
Reform Circus
1970
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
1970 · Director, Writer
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
1970 · Producer
A Doctor From Haberstadt
1970 · Writer, Director
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
1968 · Director, Writer, Producer
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
1968 · Director, Writer
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
1967 · Director, Writer
Yesterday Girl
1967 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer, Short Story
News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
1966 · Director
A Poker Game
1966 · Editor, Director
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
1965 · Himself
Policeman's Lot
1965 · Director, Writer
Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve
1964 · Director
Protocol of a Revolution
1963 · Director, Writer
Lehrer im Wandel
1963 · Director, Writer
Brutality in Stone
1961 · Director, Writer, Producer
Rennen
1961 · Director
Thema Amore
1961 · Director, Writer
Rennfahrer
1961 · Producer, Director
The Indian Tomb
1959 · Assistant Director
The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959 · Assistant Director
Finite and Infinite Games
· Himself
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
· Director
Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?
· Director
Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele
· Director
Spinoza und die Modi Gottes
· Director
Love in a spacesuit
· Director
The most beautiful treasure of evolution
· Director
Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung
· Director
Clinton's Chief Economist
· Director
Séries (11)
Precht
2012 · Self
druckfrisch
2003 · self
Literatur im Foyer
2000 · himself
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998 · Self
Alpha Forum
1998 · Self
Lebensläufe
1998 · Self
Kulturzeit
1995 · self
10 vor 11
1988 · Creator
Grimme Award
1964 · Self
German Film Award
1951 · Self
Bambi
1948 · Self