Alexander Kluge

Directing·February 14, 1932·† March 25, 2026 — 94 years old·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.

Known For

The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Indian Tomb

Germany in Autumn

Yesterday Girl

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

1968·5.9

Brutality in Stone

1961·7.1

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

1974·5.0

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Strongman Ferdinand

The Big Mess

The Patriotic Woman

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet

1972·5.9

Filmography · 200

—Finite and Infinite GamesHimself —At Work in the Ruins of MoralityDirector —Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?Director —Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 BeispieleDirector —Spinoza und die Modi GottesDirector —Love in a spacesuitDirector —The most beautiful treasure of evolutionDirector 2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929Director · Producer · Screenplay 2026Heterotopie der OperDirector 2026Utopie der OperDirector 2026Die Liebe stört der kalte TodDirector of Photography · Editor · Director 2025The KlimperclownSelf 2025Primitive DiversityDirector · Writer · Producer · Editor · Sound Designer · Director of Photography · Production Design 2024Beginnings of Film ArtDirector 2024An Opera That Sparked a RevolutionDirector 2024Attack on a Thick Glass DoorDirector 2024Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)Director 2024Planetary ManDirector 2024String Cinema – Mathematical Minute OperaDirector 2024Happy Root From Non-IdentityDirector 2024Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and SociologistDirector 2024Cosmic MiniaturesDirector 2023Lied der MedeaDirector · Producer · Screenplay 2022Come With Me to the Cinema – The GregorsSelf 2022Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)Director 2022In the Rock of SignsDirector 2021Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os CanibaisDirector 2021OrpheaDirector · Writer · Producer 2021Zirkus, Richter’s TangoDirector 2020Wim Wenders, DesperadoSelf (archive footage)2020Werewolves PlayoffsDirector 2020The Leaks of VeniceProducer 2020The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941Director 2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen RevolutionDirector · Producer · Writer 2020Trump State VisitDirector · Producer · Writer 2019Veränderung ist das Salz des VergnügensDirector 2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum ErdmittelpunktDirector · Producer · Screenplay 2018Der Zirkus kommt in die StadtDirector · Producer · Writer 2018Happy LamentoDirector · Screenplay 2018The Revolution is a Creature Full of SurprisesDirector 2018Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other UtopiasSelf 2018We Philosophers from Eve’s RibDirector 2018Zirkus im KriegDirector · Producer · Writer 2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the PicturesSelf 2017An Opera of the WorldHimself 2017Parsifal verlernenDirector 2017Dancing with PicturesHimself · Director 2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmSelf · Director 2017Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues EndeDirector 2017Reason is a Balancing AnimalDirector 2017Der Gärtner von NürnbergDirector · Screenplay · Producer 2016On the Holy Spirit 2015Fassbinder's FuneralDirector 2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?Director · Producer · Screenplay 2014Nachrichten vom Großen KriegDirector 2014Light VeinsDirector 2014Moby Dick – Godzilla – FukushimaDirector 2013Theorie der ErzählungHimself · Director 2012Rigor Was His Mark of QualityDirector 2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer HandWriter · Director 2012PrechtTVSelf 2012Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander KlugeDirector 2011Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachenDirector 2011Nuits transparentes 2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseSelf · Director 2009Früchte des VertrauensDirector 2009Der Deutschland-KomplexDirector 2008Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"Director 2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The CapitalDirector 2008Counter Shot: Departure of the FilmmakersSelf (uncredited)2008Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der MaterieDirector 2007Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsSelf · Director 2007Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & FakesDirector 2007Das Phänomen der OperDirector 2007The Magic of the Darkened SoulDirector 2007Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!Director 2007The Poetic Power of TheoryDirector 200616 Minute-filmsDirector 2006Sad NewsDirector 2006Das gab’s nur einmalDirector 2006La HabaneraDirector 2006Storm Over EgyptDirector 2006The Deadly TriangleDirector 2006The Trickiness of Peace TreatiesDirector 2006From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead WestwardsDirector 2006Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein DampferDirector 2006Die Frau auf dem SchlachtfeldWriter · Director 2006La PalomaDirector 2006Sam Remembers Papa KongDirector 2005The Officer as a PhilosopherDirector 2003druckfrischTVself 2003A Woman Like a VolcanoDirector 2002Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen AusgangSelf 2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!Self - Narrator (voice) · Director · Idea · Producer 2001The Flexible EntrepreneurDirector 2000Literatur im FoyerTVhimself 2000Ich war Hitlers BodyguardDirector 2000The Execution of an ElephantDirector 1999Spaceflight as an Internal ExperienceDirector 1999He Who Hopes, Dies SingingDirector 1998Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewaltDirector 1998An Experiment in LoveDirector 1998Sternstunde PhilosophieTVSelf 1998Alpha ForumTVSelf 1998LebensläufeTVSelf 1998Learning Processes with a Deadly OutcomeDirector 1998Neonröhren des HimmelsDirector 1998100 Years of the German RhineDirector 1998Der schwedische MozartDirector 1998For VertovDirector 1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 SecondsProducer · Director 1997The Poet as Metaphor SlingshotDirector 1997The Day Is NighDirector 1996Epic Theater & Post-heroic ManagementDirector 1996Heiner Müller in Time FlightDirector 1996He Who Smokes Looks Cold-BloodedDirector 1996Chicago in Time LapseDirector 1996Engine CoughDirector 1995Queen of Hearts on Judgment DayDirector 1995KulturzeitTVself 1995On the Way to a Theater of DarknessesDirector 1995The Voice of the PlaywrightDirector 1995Omnivore DemocracyDirector 1995My Rendezvous with DeathDirector 1995The Night of the FilmmakersSelf 1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”Director 1994The World is Not Bad, but FullDirector 1994I Owe the World a Dead PersonDirector 1994Under the Sign of MarsDirector 1993Anti-OperaDirector 1993The Death of SenecaDirector 1993Plowshare of EvilDirector 1993Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small FishDirector 1993The Last of the MohicansDirector 1993Mind, Power, CastrationDirector 1992Frederick of PrussiaDirector 1991SnowwhiteRoseredSelf 1991“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”Director 1991Every Frozen Structure has its AcademyDirector 1991Rome, as Far Away as the MoonDirector 1990Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre AnfängeDirector · Writer 1990Heiner Müller on Legal QuestionsDirector 1990Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing byDirector 1990Wild Night with MoonDirector 1989Conversation with Heiner Müller in GarathDirector 1989The Heart and the LegsSelf 1989Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th BirthdayDirector 1989Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschenSelf 1989Paper Tiger Television, New YorkDirector 1988The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White WomanDirector 198810 vor 11TVCreator 1988Antiques of AdvertisingDirector 1988Madame Butterfly WaitsDirector 1988Why Are You Crying, Antonio?Director 1988JapanclipsDirector 1988Blue Hour Tango TimeDirector 1988Changing Time (Quickly)Director 1988The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal OutcomeDirector 1986Miscellaneous NewsDirector · Writer 1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of TimeDirector · Writer 1983Biermann-FilmDirector 1983Looking for a Practical and Realistic BehaviourDirector · Writer 1983The Power of EmotionDirector · Writer 1982War and PeaceWriter · Director 1980The CandidateWriter · Director 1979The Patriotic WomanWriter · Director 1978Germany in AutumnDirector · Screenplay 1977People Preparing the Staufer AnniversaryDirector · Writer 1977Nachrichten von den StaufernDirector · Writer 1976Strongman FerdinandDirector · Writer 1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to DeathDirector · Writer 1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic SlaveDirector · Writer 1973The Journey to ViennaWriter 1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908Writer · Director 1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th FleetDirector · Writer 1971The Big MessWriter · Director 1970Reform Circus 1970The Indomitable Leni PeickertWriter · Director 1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)Producer 1970A Doctor From HaberstadtDirector · Writer 1968Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedDirector · Writer · Producer 1968Die Erben von Papas Kino 1968E. A. Winterstein, Fire ExtinguisherDirector · Writer 1967Yesterday GirlDirector · Writer · Producer · Short Story 1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmtDirector · Writer 1966News from the 1966 Venice Film FestivalDirector 1966A Poker GameDirector · Editor 1965...Geist und ein wenig GlückHimself 1965Policeman's LotDirector · Writer 1964Grimme AwardTVSelf 1963Protocol of a RevolutionDirector · Writer 1963Lehrer im WandelWriter · Director 1961Brutality in StoneDirector · Writer · Producer 1961RennenDirector 1961Thema AmoreDirector · Writer 1961RennfahrerProducer · Director 1959The Indian TombAssistant Director 1959The Tiger of EschnapurAssistant Director 1951German Film AwardTVSelf 1948BambiTVSelf