Alexander Kluge
Directing

Alexander Kluge

Born 14 February 1932 · Halberstadt, Germany · Died 25 March 2026

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.

Known for

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
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
The Big Mess
Strongman Ferdinand
The Patriotic Woman
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
The Journey to Vienna
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
Primitive Diversity
Cosmic Miniatures
Planetary Man
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
Happy Root From Non-Identity
Beginnings of Film Art
In the Rock of Signs
Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
Orphea
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
The Leaks of Venice
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
Happy Lamento
Dancing with Pictures
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
Reason is a Balancing Animal
Parsifal verlernen
Light Veins
Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
Theorie der Erzählung
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Früchte des Vertrauens
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
Das Phänomen der Oper
The Poetic Power of Theory
Multiple Images for Five Projectors
La Habanera
La Paloma
16 Minute-films
Sam Remembers Papa Kong
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
The Execution of an Elephant
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
100 Years of the German Rhine
For Vertov
An Experiment in Love
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
The Day Is Nigh
Chicago in Time Lapse
Wild Night with Moon
Paper Tiger Television, New York
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
Miscellaneous News
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
The Power of Emotion
War and Peace
The Candidate
The Patriotic Woman
Germany in Autumn
Strongman Ferdinand
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
The Journey to Vienna
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
The Big Mess
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
A Doctor From Haberstadt
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Yesterday Girl
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
Lehrer im Wandel
Brutality in Stone
Alexander Kluge · Midrow