
Alexander Kluge
Biography
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.
Acting (19 movies)

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008

The Night of the Filmmakers
1995

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010

Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
2000

Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
2002

On the Holy Spirit
2016

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
2017

Multiple Images for Five Projectors
2007

Dancing with Pictures
2017

An Opera of the World
2017

Theorie der Erzählung
2013

Nuits transparentes
2011

...Geist und ein wenig Glück
1965

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020

Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen
1989

The Klimperclown
2025
Directing (137 movies)

Germany in Autumn
1978

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
1973

Yesterday Girl
1967

The Big Mess
1971

Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital
2008

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
1974

The Patriotic Woman
1979

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
1968

Brutality in Stone
1961
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
1968

The Power of Emotion
1983

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
1985

Strongman Ferdinand
1976

Chicago in Time Lapse
1996
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1995
Sad News
2006

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
1972
Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome
1998
Engine Cough
1996

Miscellaneous News
1986
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
2008
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
2008
Das gab’s nur einmal
2006

La Habanera
2006
Biermann-Film
1983
Neonröhren des Himmels
1998

100 Years of the German Rhine
1998
Protocol of a Revolution
1963

Lehrer im Wandel
1963
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
1993
Storm Over Egypt
2006

The Indomitable Leni Peickert
1970
The Deadly Triangle
2006
The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
2006

Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
1967

A Doctor From Haberstadt
1970
Rennen
1961

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
1973
Policeman's Lot
1965

The Candidate
1980

War and Peace
1982
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
1983
The Officer as a Philosopher
2005
The Flexible Entrepreneur
2001
A Woman Like a Volcano
2003
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
1999
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
2006
Der schwedische Mozart
1998
Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde
2006
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
1989
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
1989
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
1990
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
1991
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
1990
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
1991
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
1991
Frederick of Prussia
1992
Mind, Power, Castration
1993
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
2012
The Last of the Mohicans
1993
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
1996
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
1997
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
1996
Anti-Opera
1993
Under the Sign of Mars
1994
My Rendezvous with Death
1995
Plowshare of Evil
1993
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
1995
The Death of Seneca
1993
Omnivore Democracy
1995
The World is Not Bad, but Full
1994
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
1996
The Voice of the Playwright
1995
I Owe the World a Dead Person
1994
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
1995

Cosmic Miniatures
2024

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
2000

Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
1999

The Day Is Nigh
1997
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
1990

The Execution of an Elephant
2000
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
1977

For Vertov
1998
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
2006
Nachrichten von den Staufern
1977

An Experiment in Love
1998

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
1988

Dancing with Pictures
2017

Theorie der Erzählung
2013

Das Phänomen der Oper
2007

The Poetic Power of Theory
2007
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
2007
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
2007
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
2007
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
2021

Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
2024

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
2017

Planetary Man
2024

In the Rock of Signs
2022

Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
2021