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Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge

1932-02-14

Halberstadt-Germany

Age: 93

DIRECTING

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.

Best known for:

The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Indian Tomb

Germany in Autumn

Yesterday Girl

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Brutality in Stone

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

The Big Mess

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

Strongman Ferdinand

The Patriotic Woman

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

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Die Reise nach Wien

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

The Day Is Nigh

Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

Precht

People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

The Power of Emotion

SnowwhiteRosered

The Night of the Filmmakers

The Execution of an Elephant

Wim Wenders, Desperado

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Filmography:

The Indian Tomb (1959)
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Assistant Director
The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
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Assistant Director
Brutality in Stone (1961)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer, Producer
Lehrer im Wandel (1963)
WORK AS:
Writer, Director
News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (1966)
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Director
Yesterday Girl (1967)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer, Producer, Short Story
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (1967)
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Director, Writer
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
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Director, Writer, Producer

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The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970)
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Writer, Director
A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970)
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Director, Writer
The Big Mess (1971)
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Writer, Director
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (1972)
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Director, Writer
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973)
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Director, Writer
Die Reise nach Wien (1973)
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Writer
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (1973)
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Writer, Director
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974)
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Director, Writer

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Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Germany in Autumn (1978)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
The Patriotic Woman (1979)
WORK AS:
Writer, Director
The Candidate (1980)
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Writer, Director
War and Peace (1982)
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Writer, Director
The Power of Emotion (1983)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Miscellaneous News (1986)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman (1988)
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Director
Paper Tiger Television, New York (1989)
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Director
Chicago in Time Lapse (1996)
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Director
The Day Is Nigh (1997)
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Director
An Experiment in Love (1998)
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Director
For Vertov (1998)
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Director
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (1998)
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Producer, Director
100 Years of the German Rhine (1998)
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Director
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999)
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Director
The Execution of an Elephant (2000)
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Director
Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard (2001)
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Director
La Paloma (2006)
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Director
16 Minute-films (2006)
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Director
Sam Remembers Papa Kong (2006)
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Director
La Habanera (2006)
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Director
Das Phänomen der Oper (2007)
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Director
The Poetic Power of Theory (2007)
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Director
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital (2008)
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Director
Früchte des Vertrauens (2009)
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Director
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (2012)
WORK AS:
Writer, Director
Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg (2014)
WORK AS:
Director
Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima (2014)
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Director
Light Veins (2014)
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Director
Parsifal verlernen (2017)
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Director
Happy Lamento (2018)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises (2018)
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Director
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib (2018)
WORK AS:
Director
The Leaks of Venice (2020)
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Producer
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 (2020)
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Director
Orphea (2021)
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Director, Writer, Producer
Zirkus, Richter’s Tango (2021)
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Director
In the Rock of Signs (2022)
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Director
Reason is a Balancing Animal (2022)
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Director
Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) (2022)
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Director
Cosmic Miniatures (2024)
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Director
Beginnings of Film Art (2024)
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Director
Planetary Man (2024)
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Director
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) (2024)
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Director
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist (2024)
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Director
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution (2024)
WORK AS:
Director
String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera (2024)
WORK AS:
Director
Happy Root From Non-Identity (2024)
WORK AS:
Director
Primitive Diversity (2025)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer