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
The Indian Tomb
(1959)
Assistant Director
The Tiger of Eschnapur
(1959)
Assistant Director
Full Filmography
Directing
The Tiger of Eschnapur
(1959)
Assistant Director
The Indian Tomb
(1959)
Assistant Director
Brutality in Stone
(1961)
Director
Rennen
(1961)
Director
Rennfahrer
(1961)
Director
Thema Amore
(1961)
Director
Lehrer im Wandel
(1963)
Director
Protocol of a Revolution
(1963)
Director
Policeman's Lot
(1965)
Director
Yesterday Girl
(1966)
Director
A Poker Game
(1966)
Director
News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
(1966)
Director
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
(1967)
Director
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
(1968)
Director
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
(1968)
Director
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
(1970)
Director
A Doctor From Haberstadt
(1970)
Director
The Big Mess
(1971)
Director
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
(1972)
Director
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
(1973)
Director
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
(1973)
Director
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
(1974)
Director
Strongman Ferdinand
(1976)
Director
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
(1977)
Director
Nachrichten von den Staufern
(1977)
Director
Germany in Autumn
(1978)
Director
The Patriotic Woman
(1979)
Director
The Candidate
(1980)
Director
Krieg und Frieden
(1982)
Director
The Power of Emotion
(1983)
Director
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
(1983)
Director
Biermann-Film
(1983)
Director
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
(1985)
Director
Miscellaneous News
(1986)
Director
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
(1988)
Director
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
(1989)
Director
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
(1989)
Director
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
(1990)
Director
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
(1990)
Director
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
(1990)
Director
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
(1991)
Director
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
(1991)
Director
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
(1991)
Director
Frederick of Prussia
(1992)
Director
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
(1993)
Director
Mind, Power, Castration
(1993)
Director
The Last of the Mohicans
(1993)
Director
Plowshare of Evil
(1993)
Director
The Death of Seneca
(1993)
Director
Anti-Opera
(1993)
Director
Under the Sign of Mars
(1994)
Director
I Owe the World a Dead Person
(1994)
Director
The World is Not Bad, but Full
(1994)
Director
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
(1995)
Director
My Rendezvous with Death
(1995)
Director
The Voice of the Playwright
(1995)
Director
Omnivore Democracy
(1995)
Director
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
(1995)
Director
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
(1995)
Director
Engine Cough
(1996)
Director
Chicago Im Zeitraffer
(1996)
Director
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
(1996)
Director
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
(1996)
Director
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
(1996)
Director
The Day Is Nigh
(1997)
Director
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
(1997)
Director
For Vertov
(1998)
Director
An Experiment in Love
(1998)
Director
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
(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
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
(1999)
Director
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
(1999)
Director
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
(2000)
Director
The Execution of an Elephant
(2000)
Director
Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard
(2001)
Director
The Flexible Entrepreneur
(2001)
Director
A Woman Like a Volcano
(2003)
Director
The Officer as a Philosopher
(2005)
Director
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
(2006)
Director
La Paloma
(2006)
Director
16 Minute-films
(2006)
Director
Sam remembers Papa Kong
(2006)
Director
Sad News
(2006)
Director
Das gab’s nur einmal
(2006)
Director
La Habanera
(2006)
Director
Storm Over Egypt
(2006)
Director
The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
(2006)
Director
The Deadly Triangle
(2006)
Director
Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde
(2006)
Director
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
(2006)
Director
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
(2007)
Director
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
(2007)
Director
Das Phänomen der Oper
(2007)
Director
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
(2007)
Director
The Poetic Power of Theory
(2007)
Director
News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – The Capital
(2008)
Director
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
(2008)
Director
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
(2008)
Director
Früchte des Vertrauens
(2009)
Director
Der Deutschland-Komplex
(2009)
Director
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
(2010)
Director
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
(2011)
Director
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
(2012)
Director
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
(2012)
Director
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
(2012)
Director
Theorie der Erzählung
(2013)
Director
News from the Great War
(2014)
Director
Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
(2014)
Director
Dancing with Pictures
(2017)
Director
Parsifal verlernen
(2017)
Director
Happy Lamento
(2018)
Director
Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
(2019)
Director
Werewolves Playoffs
(2020)
Director
Orphea
(2021)
Director
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
(2021)
Director
Cosmic Miniatures
(2024)
Director
Acting
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
(1965)
Himself
Die Erben von Papas Kino
(1968)
Reform Circus
(1970)
The Heart and the Legs
(1989)
Self
SnowwhiteRosered
(1991)
Self
The Night of the Filmmakers
(1995)
Self
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
(1995)
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
(2000)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
(2008)
Self (uncredited)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
(2010)
Self
Nuits transparentes
(2011)
Theorie der Erzählung
(2013)
Himself
Dancing with Pictures
(2017)
Himself
An Opera of the World
(2017)
Himself
Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern
(2017)
Self
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
(2018)
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
(2022)
Alexander Kluge
Writing
Brutality in Stone
(1961)
Writer
Thema Amore
(1961)
Writer
Lehrer im Wandel
(1963)
Writer
Protocol of a Revolution
(1963)
Writer
Policeman's Lot
(1965)
Writer
Yesterday Girl
(1966)
Writer
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
(1967)
Writer
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
(1968)
Writer
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
(1968)
Writer
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
(1970)
Writer
A Doctor From Haberstadt
(1970)
Writer
The Big Mess
(1971)
Writer
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
(1972)
Writer
Die Reise nach Wien
(1973)
Writer
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
(1973)
Writer
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
(1973)
Writer
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
(1974)
Writer
Strongman Ferdinand
(1976)
Writer
Nachrichten von den Staufern
(1977)
Writer
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
(1977)
Writer
Germany in Autumn
(1978)
Screenplay
The Patriotic Woman
(1979)
Writer
The Candidate
(1980)
Writer
Krieg und Frieden
(1982)
Writer
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
(1983)
Writer
The Power of Emotion
(1983)
Writer
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
(1985)
Writer
Miscellaneous News
(1986)
Writer
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
(1990)
Writer
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
(2006)
Writer
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
(2012)
Writer
Happy Lamento
(2018)
Screenplay
Orphea
(2021)
Writer
Production
Brutality in Stone
(1961)
Producer
Rennfahrer
(1961)
Producer
Yesterday Girl
(1966)
Producer
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
(1968)
Producer
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
(1970)
Producer
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
(1998)
Producer
The Leaks of Venice
(2020)
Producer
Orphea
(2021)
Producer
Editing