Alexander Kluge

Biography

Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) 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.

Directed

1. Germany in Autumn (1978) — Director
2. Yesterday Girl (1967) — Director
3. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) — Director
4. Brutality in Stone (1961) — Director
5. In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974) — Director
6. Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973) — Director
7. The Big Mess (1971) — Director
8. Strongman Ferdinand (1976) — Director
9. The Patriotic Woman (1979) — Director
10. Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (1972) — Director
11. News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008) — Director
12. The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985) — Director
13. The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970) — Director
14. The Power of Emotion (1983) — Director
15. Miscellaneous News (1986) — Director
16. Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999) — Director
17. The Day Is Nigh (1997) — Director
18. People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (1977) — Director
19. Policeman's Lot (1965) — Director
20. The Candidate (1980) — Director
21. Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (1983) — Director
22. The Execution of an Elephant (2000) — Director
23. E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (1968) — Director
24. Lehrer im Wandel (1963) — Director
25. Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (1967) — Director
26. Rennen (1961) — Director
27. War and Peace (1982) — Director
28. For Vertov (1998) — Director
29. News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (1966) — Director
30. Biermann-Film (1983) — Director
31. A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970) — Director
32. Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (1973) — Director
33. Cosmic Miniatures (2024) — Director
34. Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (2006) — Director
35. Nachrichten von den Staufern (1977) — Director
36. Paper Tiger Television, New York (1989) — Director
37. Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (2012) — Director
38. Orphea (2021) — Director
39. Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima (2014) — Director
40. Chicago in Time Lapse (1996) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Night of the Filmmakers (1995) — Self
2. SnowwhiteRosered (1991) — Self
3. Precht (2012) — Self
4. Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008) — Self (uncredited)
5. Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020) — Self (archive footage)
6. The Klimperclown (2025) — Self
7. Kulturzeit (1995) — self
8. Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018) — Self
9. Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures (2017) — Self
10. German Film Award (1951) — Self
11. Bambi (1948) — Self
12. druckfrisch (2003) — self
13. Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022) — Self
14. Finite and Infinite Games — Himself
15. The Heart and the Legs (1989) — Self
16. Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010) — Self
17. Die Erben von Papas Kino (1968)
18. Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (2000)
19. Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang (2002) — Self
20. On the Holy Spirit (2016)
21. Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (2017) — Self
22. Multiple Images for Five Projectors (2007) — Self
23. Dancing with Pictures (2017) — Himself
24. An Opera of the World (2017) — Himself
25. Theorie der Erzählung (2013) — Himself
26. Nuits transparentes (2011)
27. ...Geist und ein wenig Glück (1965) — Himself
28. Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (1995)
29. Reform Circus (1970)
30. Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen (1989) — Self
31. Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001) — Self - Narrator (voice)
32. Grimme Award (1964) — Self
33. Alpha Forum (1998) — Self
34. Literatur im Foyer (2000) — himself
35. Lebensläufe (1998) — Self
36. Sternstunde Philosophie (1998) — Self