Alexander Kluge
Biography
Alexander Kluge works in directing. Born February 14, 1932 in Halberstadt, Germany. Died March 25, 2026. Archytele tracks 350 screen credits across canonical film and television databases.
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350 titles- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod (2026) Director of Photography
- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod (2026) Editor
- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod (2026) Director
- Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 (2026) Director
- Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 (2026) Producer
- Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 (2026) Screenplay
- Utopie der Oper (2026) Director
- Heterotopie der Oper (2026) Director
- The Klimperclown (2025) as Self
- Primitive Diversity (2025) Director
- Primitive Diversity (2025) Writer
- Primitive Diversity (2025) Producer
- Primitive Diversity (2025) Editor
- Primitive Diversity (2025) Sound Designer
- Primitive Diversity (2025) Director of Photography
- Primitive Diversity (2025) Production Design
- Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist (2024) Director
- An Opera That Sparked a Revolution (2024) Director
- Happy Root From Non-Identity (2024) Director
- Planetary Man (2024) Director
- Cosmic Miniatures (2024) Director
- Beginnings of Film Art (2024) Director
- Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) (2024) Director
- Attack on a Thick Glass Door (2024) Director
- String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera (2024) Director
- Lied der Medea (2023) Director
- Lied der Medea (2023) Producer
- Lied der Medea (2023) Screenplay
- Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022) as Self
- Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) (2022) Director
- In the Rock of Signs (2022) Director
- Orphea (2021) Director
- Orphea (2021) Producer
- Orphea (2021) Writer
- Zirkus, Richter’s Tango (2021) Director
- Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais (2021) Director
- Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- The Leaks of Venice (2020) Producer
- The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 (2020) Director
- Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution (2020) Director
- Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution (2020) Producer
- Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution (2020) Writer
- Trump State Visit (2020) Director
- Trump State Visit (2020) Producer
- Trump State Visit (2020) Writer
- Werewolves Playoffs (2020) Director
- Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens (2019) Director
- Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt (2019) Director
- Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt (2019) Producer
- Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt (2019) Screenplay
- Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018) as Self
- Happy Lamento (2018) Director
- Happy Lamento (2018) Screenplay
- We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib (2018) Director
- The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises (2018) Director
- Zirkus im Krieg (2018) Director
- Zirkus im Krieg (2018) Producer
- Zirkus im Krieg (2018) Writer
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt (2018) Director
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt (2018) Producer
- Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt (2018) Writer
- Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures (2017) as Self
- Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (2017) as Self
- Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (2017) Director
- An Opera of the World (2017) as Himself
- Dancing with Pictures (2017) as Himself
- Dancing with Pictures (2017) Director
- Reason is a Balancing Animal (2017) Director
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg (2017) Director
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg (2017) Screenplay
- Der Gärtner von Nürnberg (2017) Producer
- Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende (2017) Director
- Parsifal verlernen (2017) Director
- On the Holy Spirit (2016)
- "They killed our friends..." (2015) Director
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? (2015) Director
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? (2015) Producer
- Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? (2015) Screenplay
- Fassbinder's Funeral (2015) Director
- Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg (2014) Director
- Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima (2014) Director
- Light Veins (2014) Director
- Theorie der Erzählung (2013) as Himself
- Theorie der Erzählung (2013) Director
- Precht (2012) as Self
- Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (2012) Director
- Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (2012) Writer
- Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge (2012) Director
- Rigor Was His Mark of Quality (2012) Director
- Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen (2011) Director
- Nuits transparentes (2011)
- Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010) as Self
- Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010) Director
- Der Deutschland-Komplex (2009) Director
- Früchte des Vertrauens (2009) Director
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008) as Self (uncredited)
- News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008) Director
- Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt (2008) Director
- Man is the Soft Target (2008) Director
- Headless Man (2008) Director
- Sense below the Sense (2008) Director
- The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative (2008) Director
- Raubengel (2008) Director
- Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie (2008) Director
- Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" (2008) Director
- Evolution in the Universe (2008) Director
- Fifi (2008) Director
- The Siamese Hands (2008) Director
- The Bridge Crosser (2007) Director
- The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts (2007) Director
- The Safety of the President (2007) Director
- The Opera Doctor (2007) Director
- Multiple Images for Five Projectors (2007) as Self
- Multiple Images for Five Projectors (2007) Director
- "50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right" (2007) Director
- The Magical World of Evolution (2007) Director
- The Deterrent (2007) Director
- War is the End of all Plans (2007) Director
- The Poetic Power of Theory (2007) Director
- Das Phänomen der Oper (2007) Director
- What Does "Good Will" Mean? (2007) Director
- The Car is your Second Skin (2007) Director
- Love Makes You Perceptive! (2007) Director
- Megastars of the Art of Love (2007) Director
- Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes (2007) Director
- Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! (2007) Director
- The Magic of the Darkened Soul (2007) Director
- I Lived for my Art (2007) Director
- "The Burning Giraffe" (2007) Director
- From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards (2006) Director
- On Laughing and Walking Upright (2006) Director
- Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer (2006) Director
- Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth (2006) Director
- La Habanera (2006) Director
- Sam Remembers Papa Kong (2006) Director
- Das gab’s nur einmal (2006) Director
- Borderline Cases of Damage Control (2006) Director
- Serpentine Gallery Program (2006) Director
- Storm Over Egypt (2006) Director
- 16 Minute-films (2006) Director
- The Greatest Treasure of Evolution (2006) Director
- La Paloma (2006) Director
- Flexible Memory (2006) Director
- The Trickiness of Peace Treaties (2006) Director
- Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (2006) Writer
- Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (2006) Director
- Sad News (2006) Director
- The Deadly Triangle (2006) Director
- The Officer as a Philosopher (2005) Director
- As a Military Judge in November 1918 (2005) Director
- The Moon Has Risen (2005) Director
- Thinking for Oneself (2005) Director
- The Black Market of Love (2005) Director
- Women as Warriors (2005) Director
- "Surplus Value" & its Images (2005) Director
- A Tear for Every Drop of Blood (2004) Director
- A Tear for Every Drop of Blood (2004) Writer
- Freedom for the Consonants! (2004) Director
- druckfrisch (2003) as self
- Der Untergang der Titanic (2003) Director
- First the Music, then the Words (2003) Director
- Rette sich, wer kann (2003) Director
- Only Cans Were Saved (2003) Director
- A Woman Like a Volcano (2003) Director
- Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang (2002) as Self
- N.Y. Ground Zero (2002) Director
- A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life (2002) Director
- Nur Gott hat zugesehen (2002) Director
- What is War? (2002) Director
- Darklings Sing Bass (2002) Director
- Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001) Director
- Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001) Idea
- Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001) Producer
- The Kiss of Death (2001) Director
- "Love Pain Like Mute Fish" (2001) Director
- Attention: Total Loss! (2001) Director
- The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing! (2001) Director
- The Flexible Entrepreneur (2001) Director
- Dance on the Volcano (2001) Director
- True Love on the Front (2001) Director
- Literatur im Foyer (2000) as himself
- Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (2000)
- Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (2000) Director
- The Sahara Became Swampland (2000) Director
- August 1914 (2000) Director
- The Execution of an Elephant (2000) Director
- Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999) Director
- Postheroic Management (1999) Director
- Snapshots for my Fiancé (1999) Director
- "With all the Wealth of my Needs" (1999) Director
- Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft (1999) Director
- My Love is Deeper than the Sea (1999) Director
- He Who Hopes, Dies Singing (1999) Director
- The Deluge (1999) Director
- The Belshazzar Project (1999) Director
- Alpha Forum (1998) as Self
- Lebensläufe (1998) as Self
- Sternstunde Philosophie (1998) as Self
- Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome (1998) Director
- Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (1998) Director
- Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (1998) Producer
- Desire that Rules the World (1998) Director
- I Come Every Morning for Sex (1998) Director
- Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt (1998) Director
- "Of which we cannot speak we must sing!" (1998) Director
- An Experiment in Love (1998) Director
- Happy Easter (1998) Director
- The Mute Girl of Portici (1998) Director
- 100 Years of the German Rhine (1998) Director
- For Vertov (1998) Director
- Der schwedische Mozart (1998) Director
- Neonröhren des Himmels (1998) Director
- The Day Is Nigh (1997) Director
- High on Work (1997) Director
- The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot (1997) Director
- Engine Cough (1996) Director
- "The Wind Will Clean It Off" (1996) Director
- Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management (1996) Director
- He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded (1996) Director
- Heiner Müller in Time Flight (1996) Director
- Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies (1996) Director
- Chicago in Time Lapse (1996) Director
- Kulturzeit (1995) as self
- The Night of the Filmmakers (1995) as Self
- The Voice of the Playwright (1995) Director
- Love as Passion (1995) Director
- Zoo Animals in War (1995) Director
- Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day (1995) Director
- Camp Money (1995) Director
- My Rendezvous with Death (1995) Director
- On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses (1995) Director
- Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (1995)
- Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (1995) Director
- Omnivore Democracy (1995) Director
- Under the Sign of Mars (1994) Director
- Die Rache der betrogenen Braut (1994) Director
- Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? (1994) Director
- Solange die Notenblätter reichen (1994) Director
- "80,000 Operas!" (1994) Director
- The World is Not Bad, but Full (1994) Director
- I Owe the World a Dead Person (1994) Director
- Die neun Unzertrennlichen (1994) Director
- The Last of the Mohicans (1993) Director
- Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish (1993) Director
- The Death of Seneca (1993) Director
- Plowshare of Evil (1993) Director
- Anti-Opera (1993) Director
- Mind, Power, Castration (1993) Director
- Frederick of Prussia (1992) Director
- "The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes" (1992) Director
- "I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion (1992) Director
- Soprano versus Bass (1992) Director
- SnowwhiteRosered (1991) as Self
- Rome, as Far Away as the Moon (1991) Director
- Soviet Patriots of 1941 (1991) Director
- Every Frozen Structure has its Academy (1991) Director
- “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” (1991) Director
- Heiner Müller on Legal Questions (1990) Director
- Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music (1990) Director
- Darwin and the Tank (1990) Director
- Wild Night with Moon (1990) Director
- Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge (1990) Director
- Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge (1990) Writer
- Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by (1990) Director
- The Heart and the Legs (1989) as Self
- Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen (1989) as Self
- Paper Tiger Television, New York (1989) Director
- Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath (1989) Director
- Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday (1989) Director
- Japanclips (1988) Director
- The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome (1988) Director
- Why Are You Crying, Antonio? (1988) Director
- 10 vor 11 (1988) Creator
- Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit (1988) Director
- The Death of Lucretia (1988) Director
- The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman (1988) Director
- The Pilot's Song (1988) Director
- Blue Hour Tango Time (1988) Director
- Antiques of Advertising (1988) Director
- Changing Time (Quickly) (1988) Director
- Madame Butterfly Waits (1988) Director
- Miscellaneous News (1986) Director
- Miscellaneous News (1986) Writer
- The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985) Director
- The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985) Writer
- The Power of Emotion (1983) Director
- The Power of Emotion (1983) Writer
- Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (1983) Director
- Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (1983) Writer
- Biermann-Film (1983) Director
- War and Peace (1982) Writer
- War and Peace (1982) Director
- The Candidate (1980) Writer
- The Candidate (1980) Director
- The Patriotic Woman (1979) Writer
- The Patriotic Woman (1979) Director
- Germany in Autumn (1978) Director
- Germany in Autumn (1978) Screenplay
- People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (1977) Director
- People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (1977) Writer
- Nachrichten von den Staufern (1977) Writer
- Nachrichten von den Staufern (1977) Director
- Strongman Ferdinand (1976) Director
- Strongman Ferdinand (1976) Writer
- In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974) Director
- In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974) Writer
- The Journey to Vienna (1973) Writer
- Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973) Director
- Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973) Writer
- Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (1973) Writer
- Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (1973) Director
- Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (1972) Director
- Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (1972) Writer
- The Big Mess (1971) Writer
- The Big Mess (1971) Director
- The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970) Director
- The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970) Writer
- Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970) Producer
- A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970) Writer
- A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970) Director
- Reform Circus (1970)
- Die Erben von Papas Kino (1968)
- Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) Director
- Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) Writer
- Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) Producer
- E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (1968) Director
- E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (1968) Writer
- Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (1967) Director
- Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (1967) Writer
- Yesterday Girl (1967) Director
- Yesterday Girl (1967) Writer
- Yesterday Girl (1967) Producer
- Yesterday Girl (1967) Short Story
- News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (1966) Director
- A Poker Game (1966) Editor
- A Poker Game (1966) Director
- ...Geist und ein wenig Glück (1965) as Himself
- Policeman's Lot (1965) Director
- Policeman's Lot (1965) Writer
- Grimme Award (1964) as Self
- Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve (1964) Director
- Lehrer im Wandel (1963) Director
- Lehrer im Wandel (1963) Writer
- Protocol of a Revolution (1963) Director
- Protocol of a Revolution (1963) Writer
- Rennen (1961) Director
- Brutality in Stone (1961) Director
- Brutality in Stone (1961) Writer
- Brutality in Stone (1961) Producer
Frequently Asked Questions
What movies or TV shows is Alexander Kluge best known for?
Alexander Kluge is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Alpha Forum (1998), Kulturzeit (1995), El comisario (1999), El comisario (1999).
When and where was Alexander Kluge born?
Alexander Kluge was born on February 14, 1932 in Halberstadt, Germany. They passed away on March 25, 2026.
How many credits does Alexander Kluge have?
Alexander Kluge has accumulated over 350 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1961 to 2026.
What is Alexander Kluge's background in cinema and television?
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.
Alexander Kluge by the numbers
Age in their best-rated roles
- Kulturzeit (1995) as self — aged about 63
- Alpha Forum (1998) as Self — aged about 66
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