Alexander Kluge

Born: February 14, 1932 - Died: March 25, 2026 (94 years)

Halberstadt, Germany

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.

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Movies Directed (166)

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Feb 5, 2026

Heterotopie der Oper

Feb 4, 2026

Utopie der Oper

Feb 2, 2026

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Jan 28, 2026

Primitive Diversity

Feb 3, 2025

Beginnings of Film Art

Jul 11, 2024

An Opera That Sparked a Revolution

Jul 4, 2024

Attack on a Thick Glass Door

Jul 4, 2024

Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)

Jun 27, 2024

Planetary Man

Jun 27, 2024

String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera

Jun 27, 2024

Happy Root From Non-Identity

Jun 18, 2024

Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

Jun 15, 2024

Cosmic Miniatures

Jan 25, 2024

Lied der Medea

Jan 1, 2023

Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

Aug 17, 2022

In the Rock of Signs

Jun 1, 2022

Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais

Aug 2, 2021

Orphea

May 20, 2021

Zirkus, Richter’s Tango

Feb 1, 2021

Werewolves Playoffs

Jun 25, 2020

The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

Jan 1, 2020

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Jan 1, 2020

Trump State Visit

Jan 1, 2020

Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens

Nov 1, 2019

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Jan 1, 2019

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Oct 11, 2018

Happy Lamento

Sep 11, 2018

The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises

Jul 4, 2018

We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib

Jan 1, 2018

Zirkus im Krieg

Jan 1, 2018

Parsifal verlernen

May 25, 2017

Dancing with Pictures

Mar 6, 2017

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

Jan 1, 2017

Reason is a Balancing Animal

Jan 1, 2017

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Jan 1, 2017

Fassbinder's Funeral

Jul 27, 2015

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Jan 1, 2015

Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg

Feb 14, 2014

Light Veins

Jan 1, 2014

Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima

Jan 1, 2014

Theorie der Erzählung

Mar 28, 2013

Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

Nov 12, 2012

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand

Sep 27, 2012

Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

Feb 3, 2012

Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen

Dec 31, 2011

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

Oct 18, 2010

Früchte des Vertrauens

Nov 16, 2009

Der Deutschland-Komplex

Jun 14, 2009

Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"

Dec 28, 2008

News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

Nov 30, 2008

Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

Jan 7, 2008

Multiple Images for Five Projectors

Dec 2, 2007

Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes

Feb 7, 2007

Das Phänomen der Oper

Feb 7, 2007

The Magic of the Darkened Soul

Feb 7, 2007

Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!

Feb 7, 2007

The Poetic Power of Theory

Feb 7, 2007

16 Minute-films

May 17, 2006

Sad News

Jan 1, 2006

Das gab’s nur einmal

Jan 1, 2006

La Habanera

Jan 1, 2006

Storm Over Egypt

Jan 1, 2006

The Deadly Triangle

Jan 1, 2006

The Trickiness of Peace Treaties

Jan 1, 2006

From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards

Jan 1, 2006

Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer

Jan 1, 2006

Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

Jan 1, 2006

La Paloma

Jan 1, 2006

Sam Remembers Papa Kong

Jan 1, 2006

The Officer as a Philosopher

Jan 1, 2005

A Woman Like a Volcano

Jan 1, 2003

The Flexible Entrepreneur

Jan 1, 2001

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!

Jan 1, 2001

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

Jan 1, 2000

The Execution of an Elephant

Jan 1, 2000

Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

Aug 8, 1999

He Who Hopes, Dies Singing

Jan 1, 1999

Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt

Aug 23, 1998

An Experiment in Love

Aug 9, 1998

Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome

Jan 1, 1998

Neonröhren des Himmels

Jan 1, 1998

100 Years of the German Rhine

Jan 1, 1998

Der schwedische Mozart

Jan 1, 1998

For Vertov

Jan 1, 1998

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

Jan 1, 1998

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

Jun 16, 1997

The Day Is Nigh

Jan 1, 1997

Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

Mar 18, 1996

Heiner Müller in Time Flight

Jan 29, 1996

He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

Jan 21, 1996

Chicago in Time Lapse

Jan 1, 1996

Engine Cough

Jan 1, 1996

Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

Oct 9, 1995

On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

Jul 31, 1995

The Voice of the Playwright

Mar 27, 1995

Omnivore Democracy

Mar 20, 1995

My Rendezvous with Death

Feb 20, 1995

Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

Jan 1, 1995

The World is Not Bad, but Full

Nov 21, 1994

I Owe the World a Dead Person

Aug 15, 1994

Under the Sign of Mars

Jan 23, 1994

Anti-Opera

Dec 6, 1993

The Death of Seneca

Apr 26, 1993

Plowshare of Evil

Apr 4, 1993

Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish

Mar 28, 1993

The Last of the Mohicans

Mar 21, 1993

Mind, Power, Castration

Mar 8, 1993

Frederick of Prussia

Mar 29, 1992

“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

Jul 8, 1991

Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

Jun 10, 1991

Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

Apr 1, 1991

Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

Nov 21, 1990

Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

Oct 22, 1990

Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

Jul 22, 1990

Wild Night with Moon

Feb 11, 1990

Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

Apr 17, 1989

Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

Jan 9, 1989

Paper Tiger Television, New York

Jan 1, 1989

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

Dec 26, 1988

Antiques of Advertising

Jan 1, 1988

Madame Butterfly Waits

Jan 1, 1988

Why Are You Crying, Antonio?

Jan 1, 1988

Japanclips

Jan 1, 1988

Blue Hour Tango Time

Jan 1, 1988

Changing Time (Quickly)

Jan 1, 1988

The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome

Jan 1, 1988

Miscellaneous News

Sep 25, 1986

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

Oct 31, 1985

Biermann-Film

Nov 1, 1983

Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

Oct 1, 1983

The Power of Emotion

Sep 16, 1983

War and Peace

Sep 30, 1982

The Candidate

Apr 18, 1980

The Patriotic Woman

Dec 7, 1979

Germany in Autumn

Mar 3, 1978

People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

Apr 23, 1977

Nachrichten von den Staufern

Jan 1, 1977

Strongman Ferdinand

Apr 26, 1976

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

Dec 18, 1974

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Dec 7, 1973

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908

Jan 1, 1973

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

Jan 19, 1972

The Big Mess

Jun 29, 1971

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Mar 29, 1970

A Doctor From Haberstadt

Jan 1, 1970

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Aug 29, 1968

E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

Jan 1, 1968

Yesterday Girl

Sep 21, 1967

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

Jun 27, 1967

News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival

Nov 5, 1966

A Poker Game

Oct 14, 1966

Policeman's Lot

Feb 24, 1965

Protocol of a Revolution

Oct 18, 1963

Lehrer im Wandel

Feb 20, 1963

Brutality in Stone

Feb 8, 1961

Rennen

Jan 1, 1961

Thema Amore

Jan 1, 1961

Rennfahrer

Jan 1, 1961

At Work in the Ruins of Morality

Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende

Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?

Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele

Spinoza und die Modi Gottes

Love in a spacesuit

The most beautiful treasure of evolution

Movies as Actor (26)

The Klimperclown

as Self

Aug 7, 2025

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

as Self

Sep 1, 2022

Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self (archive footage)

Jul 16, 2020

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

as Self

Feb 17, 2018

Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures

as Self

Nov 9, 2017

An Opera of the World

as Himself

Jun 10, 2017

Dancing with Pictures

as Himself

Mar 6, 2017

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

as Self

Jan 1, 2017

On the Holy Spirit

Oct 22, 2016

Theorie der Erzählung

as Himself

Mar 28, 2013

Nuits transparentes

Apr 14, 2011

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

as Self

Oct 18, 2010

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

as Self (uncredited)

Feb 14, 2008

Multiple Images for Five Projectors

as Self

Dec 2, 2007

Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang

as Self

Feb 18, 2002

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Jan 1, 2001

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

Jan 1, 2000

The Night of the Filmmakers

as Self

Feb 12, 1995

Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

Jan 1, 1995

SnowwhiteRosered

as Self

Oct 24, 1991

The Heart and the Legs

as Self

Mar 1, 1989

Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

as Self

Jan 1, 1989

Reform Circus

Mar 29, 1970

Die Erben von Papas Kino

Jun 30, 1968

...Geist und ein wenig Glück

as Himself

Jun 14, 1965

Finite and Infinite Games

as Himself

TV Shows as Actor (10)

Precht

as Self

Sep 2, 2012

druckfrisch

as self

Feb 9, 2003

Literatur im Foyer

as himself

Dec 3, 2000

Sternstunde Philosophie

as Self

Apr 8, 1998

Alpha Forum

as Self

Jan 7, 1998

Lebensläufe

as Self

Jan 7, 1998

Kulturzeit

as self

Oct 2, 1995

Grimme Award

as Self

Jan 16, 1964

German Film Award

as Self

Jun 6, 1951

Bambi

as Self

Jan 1, 1948

Movies as Crew (52)

Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

Producer, Screenplay

Feb 5, 2026

Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod

Director of Photography, Editor

Jan 28, 2026

Primitive Diversity

Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound Designer, Director of Photography, Production Design

Feb 3, 2025

Lied der Medea

Producer, Screenplay

Jan 1, 2023

Orphea

Writer, Producer

May 20, 2021

The Leaks of Venice

Producer

Jan 26, 2020

Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution

Producer, Writer

Jan 1, 2020

Trump State Visit

Producer, Writer

Jan 1, 2020

Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

Producer, Screenplay

Jan 1, 2019

Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

Producer, Writer

Oct 11, 2018

Happy Lamento

Screenplay

Sep 11, 2018

Zirkus im Krieg

Producer, Writer

Jan 1, 2018

Der Gärtner von Nürnberg

Screenplay, Producer

Jan 1, 2017

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?

Producer, Screenplay

Jan 1, 2015

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand

Writer

Sep 27, 2012

Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

Writer

Jan 1, 2006

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!

Idea, Producer

Jan 1, 2001

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

Producer

Jan 1, 1998

Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

Writer

Nov 21, 1990

Miscellaneous News

Writer

Sep 25, 1986

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

Writer

Oct 31, 1985

Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

Writer

Oct 1, 1983

The Power of Emotion

Writer

Sep 16, 1983

War and Peace

Writer

Sep 30, 1982

The Candidate

Writer

Apr 18, 1980

The Patriotic Woman

Writer

Dec 7, 1979

Germany in Autumn

Screenplay

Mar 3, 1978

People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

Writer

Apr 23, 1977

Nachrichten von den Staufern

Writer

Jan 1, 1977

Strongman Ferdinand

Writer

Apr 26, 1976

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

Writer

Dec 18, 1974

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Writer

Dec 7, 1973

The Journey to Vienna

Writer

Sep 26, 1973

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908

Writer

Jan 1, 1973

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

Writer

Jan 19, 1972

The Big Mess

Writer

Jun 29, 1971

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Writer

Mar 29, 1970

Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

Producer

Feb 1, 1970

A Doctor From Haberstadt

Writer

Jan 1, 1970

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Writer, Producer

Aug 29, 1968

E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

Writer

Jan 1, 1968

Yesterday Girl

Writer, Producer, Short Story

Sep 21, 1967

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

Writer

Jun 27, 1967

A Poker Game

Editor

Oct 14, 1966

Policeman's Lot

Writer

Feb 24, 1965

Protocol of a Revolution

Writer

Oct 18, 1963

Lehrer im Wandel

Writer

Feb 20, 1963

Brutality in Stone

Writer, Producer

Feb 8, 1961

Rennfahrer

Producer

Jan 1, 1961

Thema Amore

Writer

Jan 1, 1961

The Indian Tomb

Assistant Director

Mar 5, 1959

The Tiger of Eschnapur

Assistant Director

Jan 21, 1959

TV Shows as Crew (1)

10 vor 11

Creator

May 2, 1988