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Alexander Kluge

Directing

Born: February 14, 1932 · Halberstadt, Germany
Died: March 25, 2026 (age 94)

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

The Tiger of Eschnapur
January 21, 1959
The Indian Tomb
March 5, 1959
Germany in Autumn
March 3, 1978
Yesterday Girl
September 21, 1967
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
August 29, 1968
Brutality in Stone
February 8, 1961
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
December 18, 1974
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
December 7, 1973
The Big Mess
June 29, 1971
Strongman Ferdinand
April 26, 1976
The Patriotic Woman
December 7, 1979
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
January 19, 1972

Behind the camera261

2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 Director, Producer, Screenplay
2026Heterotopie der Oper Director
2026Utopie der Oper Director
2026Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod Director of Photography, Editor, Director
2025Primitive Diversity Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound Designer, Director of Photography, Production Design
2024Beginnings of Film Art Director
2024An Opera That Sparked a Revolution Director
2024Attack on a Thick Glass Door Director
2024Planetary Man Director

2024

Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) Director

2024String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera Director

2024Happy Root From Non-Identity Director

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2024Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist Director
2024Cosmic Miniatures Director
2023Lied der Medea Director, Producer, Screenplay
2022Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) Director
2022In the Rock of Signs Director
2021Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais Director
2021Orphea Director, Writer, Producer
2021Zirkus, Richter’s Tango Director
2020Werewolves Playoffs Director
2020The Leaks of Venice Producer
2020The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 Director
2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution Director, Producer, Writer
2020Trump State Visit Director, Producer, Writer
2019Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens Director
2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt Director, Producer, Screenplay
2018Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt Director, Producer, Writer
2018Happy Lamento Director, Screenplay
2018The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises Director
2018We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib Director
2018Zirkus im Krieg Director, Producer, Writer
2017Parsifal verlernen Director
2017Dancing with Pictures Director
2017Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende Director
2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film Director
2017Reason is a Balancing Animal Director
2017Der Gärtner von Nürnberg Director, Screenplay, Producer
2015Fassbinder's Funeral Director
2015"They killed our friends..." Director
2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? Director, Producer, Screenplay
2014Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg Director
2014Light Veins Director
2014Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima Director
2013Theorie der Erzählung Director
2012Rigor Was His Mark of Quality Director
2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand Director, Writer
2012Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge Director
2011Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen Director
2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse Director
2009Früchte des Vertrauens Director
2009Der Deutschland-Komplex Director
2008Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" Director
2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital Director
2008Fifi Director
2008The Siamese Hands Director
2008Sense below the Sense Director
2008Headless Man Director
2008The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative Director
2008Raubengel Director
2008Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt Director
2008Evolution in the Universe Director
2008Man is the Soft Target Director
2008Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie Director
2007Multiple Images for Five Projectors Director
2007What Does "Good Will" Mean? Director
2007The Safety of the President Director
2007The Bridge Crosser Director
2007The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts Director
2007The Car is your Second Skin Director
2007Megastars of the Art of Love Director
2007The Magical World of Evolution Director
2007The Deterrent Director
2007War is the End of all Plans Director
2007I Lived for my Art Director
2007"The Burning Giraffe" Director
2007"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right" Director
2007Love Makes You Perceptive! Director
2007Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! Director
2007Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes Director
2007Das Phänomen der Oper Director
2007The Magic of the Darkened Soul Director
2007The Poetic Power of Theory Director
2007The Opera Doctor Director
2006On Laughing and Walking Upright Director
2006Flexible Memory Director
2006Serpentine Gallery Program Director
2006Borderline Cases of Damage Control Director
2006Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth Director
200616 Minute-films Director
2006The Greatest Treasure of Evolution Director
2006Sad News Director
2006Das gab’s nur einmal Director
2006La Habanera Director
2006Storm Over Egypt Director
2006The Deadly Triangle Director
2006The Trickiness of Peace Treaties Director
2006From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards Director
2006Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer Director
2006Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld Director, Writer
2006La Paloma Director
2006Sam Remembers Papa Kong Director
2005"Surplus Value" & its Images Director
2005As a Military Judge in November 1918 Director
2005Thinking for Oneself Director
2005Women as Warriors Director
2005The Black Market of Love Director
2005The Moon Has Risen Director
2005The Officer as a Philosopher Director
2004Freedom for the Consonants! Director
2004A Tear for Every Drop of Blood Director, Writer
2003Only Cans Were Saved Director
2003First the Music, then the Words Director
2003Rette sich, wer kann Director
2003Der Untergang der Titanic Director
2003A Woman Like a Volcano Director
2002Nur Gott hat zugesehen Director
2002What is War? Director
2002Darklings Sing Bass Director
2002N.Y. Ground Zero Director
2002A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life Director
2001The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing! Director
2001Dance on the Volcano Director
2001The Kiss of Death Director
2001True Love on the Front Director
2001"Love Pain Like Mute Fish" Director
2001Attention: Total Loss! Director
2001The Flexible Entrepreneur Director
2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! Director, Idea, Producer
2000The Sahara Became Swampland Director
2000August 1914 Director
2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard Director
2000The Execution of an Elephant Director
1999The Deluge Director
1999"With all the Wealth of my Needs" Director
1999Spaceflight as an Internal Experience Director
1999Postheroic Management Director
1999Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft Director
1999Snapshots for my Fiancé Director
1999My Love is Deeper than the Sea Director
1999The Belshazzar Project Director
1999He Who Hopes, Dies Singing Director
1998Desire that Rules the World Director
1998Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt Director
1998An Experiment in Love Director
1998The Mute Girl of Portici Director
1998Happy Easter Director
1998I Come Every Morning for Sex Director
1998Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome Director
1998Neonröhren des Himmels Director
1998100 Years of the German Rhine Director
1998Der schwedische Mozart Director
1998For Vertov Director
1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds Director, Producer
1998"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!" Director
1997The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot Director
1997High on Work Director
1997The Day Is Nigh Director
1996Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies Director
1996"The Wind Will Clean It Off" Director
1996Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management Director
1996Heiner Müller in Time Flight Director
1996He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded Director
1996Chicago in Time Lapse Director
1996Engine Cough Director
1995Camp Money Director
1995Zoo Animals in War Director
1995Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day Director
1995On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses Director
1995The Voice of the Playwright Director
1995Omnivore Democracy Director
1995Love as Passion Director
1995My Rendezvous with Death Director
1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” Director
1994Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? Director
1994The World is Not Bad, but Full Director
1994I Owe the World a Dead Person Director
1994Die Rache der betrogenen Braut Director
1994Die neun Unzertrennlichen Director
1994Under the Sign of Mars Director
1994Solange die Notenblätter reichen Director
1994"80,000 Operas!" Director
1993Anti-Opera Director
1993The Death of Seneca Director
1993Plowshare of Evil Director
1993Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish Director
1993The Last of the Mohicans Director
1993Mind, Power, Castration Director
1992"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes" Director
1992"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion Director
1992Frederick of Prussia Director
1992Soprano versus Bass Director
1991“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” Director
1991Every Frozen Structure has its Academy Director
1991Soviet Patriots of 1941 Director
1991Rome, as Far Away as the Moon Director
1990Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge Director, Writer
1990Heiner Müller on Legal Questions Director
1990Darwin and the Tank Director
1990Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by Director
1990Wild Night with Moon Director
1990Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music Director
1989Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath Director
1989Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday Director
1989Paper Tiger Television, New York Director
1988The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman Director
1988The Pilot's Song Director
1988The Death of Lucretia Director
1988Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit Director
1988Antiques of Advertising Director
1988Madame Butterfly Waits Director
1988Why Are You Crying, Antonio? Director
1988Japanclips Director
1988Blue Hour Tango Time Director
1988Changing Time (Quickly) Director
1988The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome Director
1986Miscellaneous News Director, Writer
1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time Director, Writer
1983Biermann-Film Director
1983Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour Director, Writer
1983The Power of Emotion Director, Writer
1982War and Peace Director, Writer
1980The Candidate Director, Writer
1979The Patriotic Woman Director, Writer
1978Germany in Autumn Director, Screenplay
1977People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary Director, Writer
1977Nachrichten von den Staufern Director, Writer
1976Strongman Ferdinand Director, Writer
1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death Director, Writer
1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave Director, Writer
1973The Journey to Vienna Writer
1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 Director, Writer
1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet Director, Writer
1971The Big Mess Director, Writer
1970The Indomitable Leni Peickert Director, Writer
1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) Producer
1970A Doctor From Haberstadt Director, Writer
1968Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed Director, Writer, Producer
1968E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher Director, Writer
1967Yesterday Girl Director, Writer, Producer, Short Story
1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt Director, Writer
1966News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival Director
1966A Poker Game Director, Editor
1965Policeman's Lot Director, Writer
1964Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve Director
1963Protocol of a Revolution Director, Writer
1963Lehrer im Wandel Director, Writer
1961Brutality in Stone Director, Writer, Producer
1961Rennen Director
1961Rennfahrer Director, Producer
1961Thema Amore Director, Writer
1959The Indian Tomb Assistant Director
1959The Tiger of Eschnapur Assistant Director
TBAAt Work in the Ruins of Morality Director
TBARettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode? Director
TBAÜber Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele Director
TBASpinoza und die Modi Gottes Director
TBALove in a spacesuit Director
TBAThe most beautiful treasure of evolution Director
TBAAmok. Das Ende der Einfühlung Director
TBAClinton's Chief Economist Director

Acting26

2025The Klimperclown as Self
2022Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
2020Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
2018Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias as Self
2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures as Self
2017An Opera of the World as Himself
2017Dancing with Pictures as Himself
2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film as Self
2016On the Holy Spirit
2013Theorie der Erzählung as Himself
2011Nuits transparentes
2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse as Self

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2008Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self (uncredited)
2007Multiple Images for Five Projectors as Self
2002Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang as Self
2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! as Self - Narrator (voice)
2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
1995The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1991SnowwhiteRosered as Self
1989The Heart and the Legs as Self
1989Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

as Self

1970Reform Circus

1968Die Erben von Papas Kino

1965...Geist und ein wenig Glück as Himself

TBAFinite and Infinite Games as Himself