Alexander Kluge

Known for: Directing
Born: February 14, 1932, Halberstadt, Germany
Died: March 25, 2026
Movies: 276

Alexander Kluge (14 February 1932 - 25 March 2026) 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.

Upcoming Alexander Kluge Movies

Finite and Infinite Games

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

6.4

Germany in Autumn

1978

6.5

Yesterday Girl

1967

5.8

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

1968

7.1

Brutality in Stone

1961

5.0

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

1974

5.9

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

1973

7.0

The Big Mess

1971

6.0

Strongman Ferdinand

1976

7.1

The Patriotic Woman

1979

5.9

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

1972

Filmography

2025	The Klimperclown	Self
2022	Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors	Self
2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self (archive footage)
2018	Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias	Self
2017	Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures	Self
2017	An Opera of the World	Himself
2017	Dancing with Pictures	Himself
2017	Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film	Self
2016	On the Holy Spirit
2013	Theorie der Erzählung	Himself
2011	Nuits transparentes
2010	Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse	Self
2008	Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers	Self (uncredited)
2007	Multiple Images for Five Projectors	Self
2002	Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang	Self
2001	Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!	Self - Narrator (voice)
2000	Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
1995	The Night of the Filmmakers	Self
1995	Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1991	SnowwhiteRosered	Self
1989	The Heart and the Legs	Self
1989	Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen	Self
1970	Reform Circus
1968	Die Erben von Papas Kino
1965	...Geist und ein wenig Glück	Himself

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929	Director, Producer, Screenplay
2026	Heterotopie der Oper	Director
2026	Utopie der Oper	Director
2026	Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod	Director
2025	Primitive Diversity	Director, Writer, Producer
2024	Beginnings of Film Art	Director
2024	An Opera That Sparked a Revolution	Director
2024	Attack on a Thick Glass Door	Director
2024	Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)	Director
2024	Planetary Man	Director
2024	String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera	Director
2024	Happy Root From Non-Identity	Director
2024	Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist	Director
2024	Cosmic Miniatures	Director
2023	Lied der Medea	Director, Producer, Screenplay
2022	Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)	Director
2022	In the Rock of Signs	Director
2021	Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais	Director
2021	Orphea	Director, Producer, Writer
2021	Zirkus, Richter’s Tango	Director
2020	Werewolves Playoffs	Director
2020	The Leaks of Venice	Producer
2020	The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941	Director
2020	Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution	Director, Producer, Writer
2020	Trump State Visit	Director, Producer, Writer
2019	Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens	Director
2019	Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt	Director, Producer, Screenplay
2018	Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt	Director, Producer, Writer
2018	Happy Lamento	Director, Screenplay
2018	The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises	Director
2018	We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib	Director
2018	Zirkus im Krieg	Director, Producer, Writer
2017	Parsifal verlernen	Director
2017	Dancing with Pictures	Director
2017	Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende	Director
2017	Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film	Director
2017	Reason is a Balancing Animal	Director
2017	Der Gärtner von Nürnberg	Director, Screenplay, Producer
2015	Fassbinder's Funeral	Director
2015	"They killed our friends..."	Director
2015	Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?	Director, Producer, Screenplay
2014	Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg	Director
2014	Light Veins	Director
2014	Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima	Director
2013	Theorie der Erzählung	Director
2012	Rigor Was His Mark of Quality	Director
2012	Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand	Director, Writer
2012	Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge	Director
2011	Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen	Director
2010	Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse	Director
2009	Früchte des Vertrauens	Director
2009	Der Deutschland-Komplex	Director
2008	Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"	Director
2008	News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital	Director
2008	Fifi	Director
2008	The Siamese Hands	Director
2008	Sense below the Sense	Director
2008	Headless Man	Director
2008	The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative	Director
2008	Raubengel	Director
2008	Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt	Director
2008	Evolution in the Universe	Director
2008	Man is the Soft Target	Director
2008	Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie	Director
2007	Multiple Images for Five Projectors	Director
2007	What Does "Good Will" Mean?	Director
2007	The Safety of the President	Director
2007	The Bridge Crosser	Director
2007	The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts	Director
2007	The Car is your Second Skin	Director
2007	Megastars of the Art of Love	Director
2007	The Magical World of Evolution	Director
2007	The Deterrent	Director
2007	War is the End of all Plans	Director
2007	I Lived for my Art	Director
2007	"The Burning Giraffe"	Director
2007	"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"	Director
2007	Love Makes You Perceptive!	Director
2007	Das Phänomen der Oper	Director
2007	The Poetic Power of Theory	Director
2007	Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!	Director
2007	Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes	Director
2007	The Magic of the Darkened Soul	Director
2007	The Opera Doctor	Director
2006	On Laughing and Walking Upright	Director
2006	Flexible Memory	Director
2006	Serpentine Gallery Program	Director
2006	Borderline Cases of Damage Control	Director
2006	Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth	Director
2006	16 Minute-films	Director
2006	The Greatest Treasure of Evolution	Director
2006	Sad News	Director
2006	Das gab’s nur einmal	Director
2006	La Habanera	Director
2006	Storm Over Egypt	Director
2006	The Deadly Triangle	Director
2006	The Trickiness of Peace Treaties	Director
2006	Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer	Director
2006	From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards	Director
2006	Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld	Writer, Director
2006	La Paloma	Director
2006	Sam Remembers Papa Kong	Director
2005	"Surplus Value" & its Images	Director
2005	As a Military Judge in November 1918	Director
2005	Thinking for Oneself	Director
2005	Women as Warriors	Director
2005	The Black Market of Love	Director
2005	The Moon Has Risen	Director
2005	The Officer as a Philosopher	Director
2004	Freedom for the Consonants!	Director
2004	A Tear for Every Drop of Blood	Director, Writer
2003	Only Cans Were Saved	Director
2003	First the Music, then the Words	Director
2003	Rette sich, wer kann	Director
2003	Der Untergang der Titanic	Director
2003	A Woman Like a Volcano	Director
2002	Nur Gott hat zugesehen	Director
2002	What is War?	Director
2002	Darklings Sing Bass	Director
2002	N.Y. Ground Zero	Director
2002	A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life	Director
2001	The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!	Director
2001	Dance on the Volcano	Director
2001	The Kiss of Death	Director
2001	True Love on the Front	Director
2001	"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"	Director
2001	Attention: Total Loss!	Director
2001	The Flexible Entrepreneur	Director
2001	Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!	Director, Producer
2000	The Sahara Became Swampland	Director
2000	August 1914	Director
2000	Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard	Director
2000	The Execution of an Elephant	Director
1999	The Deluge	Director
1999	"With all the Wealth of my Needs"	Director
1999	Spaceflight as an Internal Experience	Director
1999	Postheroic Management	Director
1999	Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft	Director
1999	Snapshots for my Fiancé	Director
1999	My Love is Deeper than the Sea	Director
1999	The Belshazzar Project	Director
1999	He Who Hopes, Dies Singing	Director
1998	Desire that Rules the World	Director
1998	Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt	Director
1998	An Experiment in Love	Director
1998	The Mute Girl of Portici	Director
1998	Happy Easter	Director
1998	I Come Every Morning for Sex	Director
1998	Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome	Director
1998	Neonröhren des Himmels	Director
1998	100 Years of the German Rhine	Director
1998	Der schwedische Mozart	Director
1998	For Vertov	Director
1998	Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds	Director, Producer
1998	"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"	Director
1997	The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot	Director
1997	High on Work	Director
1997	The Day Is Nigh	Director
1996	Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies	Director
1996	"The Wind Will Clean It Off"	Director
1996	Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management	Director
1996	Heiner Müller in Time Flight	Director
1996	He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded	Director
1996	Chicago in Time Lapse	Director
1996	Engine Cough	Director
1995	Camp Money	Director
1995	Zoo Animals in War	Director
1995	Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day	Director
1995	On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses	Director
1995	The Voice of the Playwright	Director
1995	Omnivore Democracy	Director
1995	Love as Passion	Director
1995	My Rendezvous with Death	Director
1995	Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”	Director
1994	Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?	Director
1994	The World is Not Bad, but Full	Director
1994	I Owe the World a Dead Person	Director
1994	Die Rache der betrogenen Braut	Director
1994	Die neun Unzertrennlichen	Director
1994	Under the Sign of Mars	Director
1994	Solange die Notenblätter reichen	Director
1994	"80,000 Operas!"	Director
1993	Anti-Opera	Director
1993	The Death of Seneca	Director
1993	Plowshare of Evil	Director
1993	Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish	Director
1993	The Last of the Mohicans	Director
1993	Mind, Power, Castration	Director
1992	"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"	Director
1992	"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion	Director
1992	Frederick of Prussia	Director
1992	Soprano versus Bass	Director
1991	“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”	Director
1991	Every Frozen Structure has its Academy	Director
1991	Soviet Patriots of 1941	Director
1991	Rome, as Far Away as the Moon	Director
1990	Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge	Director, Writer
1990	Heiner Müller on Legal Questions	Director
1990	Darwin and the Tank	Director
1990	Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by	Director
1990	Wild Night with Moon	Director
1990	Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music	Director
1989	Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath	Director
1989	Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday	Director
1989	Paper Tiger Television, New York	Director
1988	The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman	Director
1988	The Pilot's Song	Director
1988	The Death of Lucretia	Director
1988	Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit	Director
1988	Antiques of Advertising	Director
1988	Madame Butterfly Waits	Director
1988	Why Are You Crying, Antonio?	Director
1988	Japanclips	Director
1988	Blue Hour Tango Time	Director
1988	Changing Time (Quickly)	Director
1988	The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome	Director
1986	Miscellaneous News	Director, Writer
1985	The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time	Director, Writer
1983	Biermann-Film	Director
1983	Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour	Director, Writer
1983	The Power of Emotion	Director, Writer
1982	War and Peace	Writer, Director
1980	The Candidate	Writer, Director
1979	The Patriotic Woman	Writer, Director
1978	Germany in Autumn	Director, Screenplay
1977	People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary	Director, Writer
1977	Nachrichten von den Staufern	Writer, Director
1976	Strongman Ferdinand	Director, Writer
1974	In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death	Director, Writer
1973	Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave	Director, Writer
1973	The Journey to Vienna	Writer
1973	Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908	Writer, Director
1972	Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet	Director, Writer
1971	The Big Mess	Writer, Director
1970	The Indomitable Leni Peickert	Director, Writer
1970	Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)	Producer
1970	A Doctor From Haberstadt	Writer, Director
1968	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Director, Writer, Producer
1968	E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher	Director, Writer
1967	Yesterday Girl	Director, Writer, Producer
1967	Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt	Director, Writer
1966	News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival	Director
1966	A Poker Game	Director
1965	Policeman's Lot	Director, Writer
1964	Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve	Director
1963	Protocol of a Revolution	Director, Writer
1963	Lehrer im Wandel	Director, Writer
1961	Brutality in Stone	Director, Writer, Producer
1961	Rennen	Director
1961	Thema Amore	Director, Writer
1961	Rennfahrer	Producer, Director

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