Klaus Wyborny

Biography

Klaus Wyborny (b.June 5, 1945 in Bittkau bei Magdeburg; lives and works in Hamburg) is a German filmmaker, producer, film director, actor, cameraman and screenwriter, known for his experimental films. Klaus Wyborny studied from 1963 to 1970 Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and the Yeshiva University in New York City. Wyborny was co-founder in 1968, with Hellmuth Costard, Thomas Struck, Werner Nekes, Helmut Herbst, Werner Grassmann, and others, of the Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative, which took the New American Cinema as an example and would develop an European version of American underground cinema. He worked for the literary journals BOA VISTA and Henry, and was co-founder of the 'Hamburger Filmgespräche'. Klaus Wyborny participated with others in the Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with Das abenteuerliche, aber glücklose Leben des William Parmagino, Dallas Texas - After the Goldrush, Chimney Piece and A Crowd in the Face, and Percy McPhee in the section Film review: New European Cinema on the Documenta 6 (1977). Wyborny participated in 1975, 1980-1982, 1986, 1992 and 1994 at the International Forum of New Cinema in Berlin. He was also several times (2002, 2005, …

Directed

1. Flight from SF to NYC (1975) — Director
2. The Scenic Sacrifice (1980) — Director
3. Studies for the Decay of the West (2010) — Director
4. The Birth of a Nation (1973) — Director
5. Pictures of the Lost Word (1975) — Director
6. Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2) (2004) — Director
7. Window Film (1975) — Director
8. From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4) (1994) — Director
9. Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush (1971) — Director
10. Der Ort der Handlung (1977) — Director
11. The Open Universe (1993) — Director
12. Sulla (2003) — Director
13. Histoire du cinema (2005) — Director
14. Elementary Filmhistory (1974) — Director
15. Richard (1981) — Director
16. Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter (2009) — Director
17. Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3) (1992) — Director
18. Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal (2010) — Director
19. At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1) (1985) — Director
20. Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5) (1985) — Director
21. 6 Small Pieces of Film (1977) — Director
22. Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film (1978) — Director
23. Potpourri from "East of No West" (1979) — Director
24. Valiantly Towards the Waves (1977) — Director
25. 4 Rural Sketches (1972) — Director
26. The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty (1974) — Director
27. Housefilm (1976) — Director
28. A Crowd in the Face (1968) — Director
29. Home Sweet Home (1968) — Director
30. Up to the Stars (1968) — Director
31. Chimney Piece (1971) — Director
32. The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino (1969) — Director
33. The Greatest Crime of All Time (1969) — Director
34. Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John (1968) — Director
35. Im KZ (1968) — Director
36. Thorium 232 (1969) — Director
37. Syrakus (2012) — Director
38. Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum) (2014) — Director
39. Britain’s Glory (2016) — Director
40. Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven (2006) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Diwan (1974)
2. The Holy Bunch (1991)
3. Burning Beds (1988)
4. The Birth of a Nation (1973) — Narrator
5. Four Shadows (1978)
6. Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures (2017) — Self
7. One Brachet Close Brachet (1966)
8. The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson (1974)
9. The Critical Mass (1999) — Himself
10. Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis (1983) — (cameo)
11. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
12. A Crowd in the Face (1968)
13. Im KZ (1968)
14. Null-Null-Zero (1968)
15. Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers (1969)