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.
2025The KlimperclownMovieas Self
2025Primitive DiversityMovieDirector · Writer · Producer · Editor · Sound Designer · Director of Photography · Production Design
2024Beginnings of Film ArtMovieDirector
2024An Opera That Sparked a RevolutionMovieDirector
2024Planetary ManMovieDirector
2024Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)MovieDirector
2024String Cinema – Mathematical Minute OperaMovieDirector
2024Happy Root From Non-IdentityMovieDirector
2024Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and SociologistMovieDirector
2024Cosmic MiniaturesMovieDirector
2022Come with Me to the Cinema – The GregorsMovieas Self
2022Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)MovieDirector
2022In the Rock of SignsMovieDirector
2021OrpheaMovieDirector · Writer · Producer
2021Zirkus, Richter’s TangoMovieDirector
2020Wim Wenders, DesperadoMovieas Self (archive footage)
2020The Leaks of VeniceMovieProducer
2020The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941MovieDirector
2018Happy LamentoMovieDirector · Screenplay
2018The Revolution is a Creature Full of SurprisesMovieDirector
2018Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other UtopiasMovieas Self
2018We Philosophers from Eve’s RibMovieDirector
2017An Opera of the WorldMovieas Himself
2017Parsifal verlernenMovieDirector
2017Dancing with PicturesMovieas Himself · Director
2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmMovieas Self · Director
2017Reason is a Balancing AnimalMovieDirector
2016On the Holy SpiritMovie
2014Nachrichten vom Großen KriegMovieDirector
2014Moby Dick – Godzilla – FukushimaMovieDirector
2014Light VeinsMovieDirector
2013Theorie der ErzählungMovieas Himself · Director
2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer HandMovieDirector · Writer
2012PrechtTV showas Self · 1 episodes
2011Nuits transparentesMovie
2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseMovieas Self · Director
2009Früchte des VertrauensMovieDirector2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The CapitalMovieDirector
2008Counter Shot: Departure of the FilmmakersMovieas Self (uncredited)
2007Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsMovieas Self · Director
2007Das Phänomen der OperMovieDirector
2007The Poetic Power of TheoryMovieDirector
200616 Minute-filmsMovieDirector
2006La HabaneraMovieDirector
2006La PalomaMovieDirector
2006Sam Remembers Papa KongMovieDirector
2003druckfrischTV showas self · 1 episodes
2002Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen AusgangMovieas Self2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!Movieas Self - Narrator (voice) · Director · Idea · Producer2000The Execution of an ElephantMovieDirector2000Ich war Hitlers BodyguardMovieDirector1999Spaceflight as an Internal ExperienceMovieDirector1998An Experiment in LoveMovieDirector
1998For VertovMovieDirector
1998100 Years of the German RhineMovieDirector
1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 SecondsMovieDirector · Producer1997The Day Is NighMovieDirector
1996Chicago in Time LapseMovieDirector
1995KulturzeitTV showas self · 1 episodes
1995The Night of the FilmmakersMovieas Self
1991SnowwhiteRoseredMovieas Self
1990Wild Night with MoonMovieDirector
1989Paper Tiger Television, New YorkMovieDirector
1989Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschenMovieas Self
1988The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White WomanMovieDirector
1986Miscellaneous NewsMovieDirector · Writer1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of TimeMovieDirector · Writer1983The Power of EmotionMovieDirector · Writer
1982War and PeaceMovieDirector · Writer
1980The CandidateMovieDirector · Writer1979The Patriotic WomanMovieDirector · Writer1978Germany in AutumnMovieDirector · Screenplay1976Strongman FerdinandMovieDirector · Writer1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to DeathMovieDirector · Writer1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic SlaveMovieDirector · Writer1973The Journey to ViennaMovieWriter
1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908MovieDirector · Writer1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th FleetMovieDirector · Writer1971The Big MessMovieDirector · Writer1970The Indomitable Leni PeickertMovieDirector · Writer
1970A Doctor From HaberstadtMovieDirector · Writer1968Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedMovieDirector · Writer · Producer
1968Die Erben von Papas KinoMovie1967Yesterday GirlMovieDirector · Writer · Producer · Short Story
1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmtMovieDirector · Writer
1966News from the 1966 Venice Film FestivalMovieDirector
1965...Geist und ein wenig GlückMovieas Himself
1963Lehrer im WandelMovieDirector · Writer1961Brutality in StoneMovieDirector · Writer · Producer1959The Indian TombMovieAssistant Director1959The Tiger of EschnapurMovieAssistant Director
1948BambiTV showas Self · 1 episodes
—Finite and Infinite GamesMovieas Himself