
Also known as: 亚历山大·克鲁格
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.
Directing
February 14, 1932
March 25, 2026
94 years old
Halberstadt, Germany
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Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
Director of Photography
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
Editor
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
Director
Utopie der Oper
Director
Heterotopie der Oper
Director
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
Director
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
Producer
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
Screenplay

The Klimperclown
Self

Primitive Diversity
Director

Primitive Diversity
Writer

Primitive Diversity
Producer

Primitive Diversity
Editor

Primitive Diversity
Sound Designer

Primitive Diversity
Director of Photography

Primitive Diversity
Production Design

Cosmic Miniatures
Director

Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
Director

Planetary Man
Director

An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
Director

Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
Director
Attack on a Thick Glass Door
Director

String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
Director

Happy Root From Non-Identity
Director

Beginnings of Film Art
Director
Lied der Medea
Director
Lied der Medea
Producer
Lied der Medea
Screenplay

Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self

In the Rock of Signs
Director

Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
Director
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
Director

Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
Director

Orphea
Director

Orphea
Writer

Orphea
Producer

Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)

The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
Director

The Leaks of Venice
Producer
Werewolves Playoffs
Director
Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution
Director
Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution
Producer
Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution
Writer
Trump State Visit
Director
Trump State Visit
Producer
Trump State Visit
Writer
Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
Director
Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
Director
Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
Producer
Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
Screenplay

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self

We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
Director

The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
Director

Happy Lamento
Director

Happy Lamento
Screenplay
Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
Director
Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
Producer
Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
Writer
Zirkus im Krieg
Director
Zirkus im Krieg
Producer
Zirkus im Krieg
Writer

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
Self

Dancing with Pictures
Himself

An Opera of the World
Himself
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
Self
Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
Director

Dancing with Pictures
Director

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
Director

Reason is a Balancing Animal
Director

Parsifal verlernen
Director
Der Gärtner von Nürnberg
Director
Der Gärtner von Nürnberg
Screenplay
Der Gärtner von Nürnberg
Producer

On the Holy Spirit
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
Director
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
Producer
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
Screenplay
Fassbinder's Funeral
Director

Light Veins
Director

Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
Director

Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
Director

Theorie der Erzählung
Himself

Theorie der Erzählung
Director

Precht
Self
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
Director

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
Writer

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
Director
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
Director

Nuits transparentes
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
Director

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Director
Der Deutschland-Komplex
Director

Früchte des Vertrauens
Director

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self (uncredited)

News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
Director
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
Director
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
Director
Headless Man
Director
The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative
Director
Raubengel
Director
Sense below the Sense
Director
Evolution in the Universe
Director
Man is the Soft Target
Director
Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt
Director
Fifi
Director
The Siamese Hands
Director

Multiple Images for Five Projectors
Self
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
Director

Das Phänomen der Oper
Director
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
Director
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
Director

The Poetic Power of Theory
Director

Multiple Images for Five Projectors
Director
"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"
Director
The Bridge Crosser
Director
"The Burning Giraffe"
Director
War is the End of all Plans
Director
The Magical World of Evolution
Director
The Car is your Second Skin
Director
The Safety of the President
Director
The Deterrent
Director
The Opera Doctor
Director
I Lived for my Art
Director
What Does "Good Will" Mean?
Director
The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts
Director
Love Makes You Perceptive!
Director
Megastars of the Art of Love
Director
Sad News
Director
Das gab’s nur einmal
Director

La Habanera
Director
Storm Over Egypt
Director
The Deadly Triangle
Director
The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
Director
From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards
Director
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
Director
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
Writer
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
Director

La Paloma
Director

16 Minute-films
Director

Sam Remembers Papa Kong
Director
Serpentine Gallery Program
Director
Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth
Director
On Laughing and Walking Upright
Director
Flexible Memory
Director
Borderline Cases of Damage Control
Director
The Greatest Treasure of Evolution
Director
The Officer as a Philosopher
Director
As a Military Judge in November 1918
Director
Women as Warriors
Director
"Surplus Value" & its Images
Director
The Moon Has Risen
Director
Thinking for Oneself
Director
The Black Market of Love
Director
Freedom for the Consonants!
Director
A Tear for Every Drop of Blood
Director
A Tear for Every Drop of Blood
Writer

druckfrisch
self
A Woman Like a Volcano
Director
Der Untergang der Titanic
Director
Rette sich, wer kann
Director
Only Cans Were Saved
Director
First the Music, then the Words
Director

Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
Self
Nur Gott hat zugesehen
Director
N.Y. Ground Zero
Director
A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life
Director
What is War?
Director
Darklings Sing Bass
Director

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Flexible Entrepreneur
Director

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Director

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Idea

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Producer
Attention: Total Loss!
Director
True Love on the Front
Director
The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!
Director
Dance on the Volcano
Director
The Kiss of Death
Director
"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"
Director

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
Literatur im Foyer
himself

Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
Director

The Execution of an Elephant
Director
August 1914
Director
The Sahara Became Swampland
Director
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
Director

Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
Director
Postheroic Management
Director
The Belshazzar Project
Director
Snapshots for my Fiancé
Director
"With all the Wealth of my Needs"
Director
The Deluge
Director
Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft
Director
My Love is Deeper than the Sea
Director
Alpha Forum
Self
Lebensläufe
Self
Sternstunde Philosophie
Self
Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome
Director
Neonröhren des Himmels
Director

100 Years of the German Rhine
Director
Der schwedische Mozart
Director

For Vertov
Director

An Experiment in Love
Director

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
Producer

Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
Director
Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt
Director
Happy Easter
Director
"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"
Director
The Mute Girl of Portici
Director
I Come Every Morning for Sex
Director
Desire that Rules the World
Director
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
Director

The Day Is Nigh
Director
High on Work
Director

Chicago in Time Lapse
Director
Engine Cough
Director
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
Director
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
Director
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
Director
Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies
Director
"The Wind Will Clean It Off"
Director

The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

Kulturzeit
self
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
Director
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
Director
My Rendezvous with Death
Director
The Voice of the Playwright
Director
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
Director
Omnivore Democracy
Director
Camp Money
Director
Zoo Animals in War
Director
Love as Passion
Director
Under the Sign of Mars
Director
The World is Not Bad, but Full
Director
I Owe the World a Dead Person
Director
Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?
Director
Solange die Notenblätter reichen
Director
Die Rache der betrogenen Braut
Director
Die neun Unzertrennlichen
Director
"80,000 Operas!"
Director
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
Director
Mind, Power, Castration
Director
Anti-Opera
Director
The Last of the Mohicans
Director
Plowshare of Evil
Director
The Death of Seneca
Director
Frederick of Prussia
Director
"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion
Director
"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"
Director
Soprano versus Bass
Director

SnowwhiteRosered
Self
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
Director
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
Director
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
Director
Soviet Patriots of 1941
Director
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
Director
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
Director
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
Director
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
Writer

Wild Night with Moon
Director
Darwin and the Tank
Director
Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music
Director
The Heart and the Legs
Self

Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen
Self
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
Director
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
Director

Paper Tiger Television, New York
Director

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
Director
Antiques of Advertising
Director
Madame Butterfly Waits
Director
Why Are You Crying, Antonio?
Director
Japanclips
Director
Blue Hour Tango Time
Director
Changing Time (Quickly)
Director
The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome
Director
Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit
Director
The Pilot's Song
Director
The Death of Lucretia
Director
10 vor 11
Creator

Miscellaneous News
Director

Miscellaneous News
Writer

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
Director

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
Writer

The Power of Emotion
Director
Biermann-Film
Director
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
Director
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
Writer

The Power of Emotion
Writer

War and Peace
Writer

War and Peace
Director

The Candidate
Writer

The Candidate
Director

The Patriotic Woman
Writer

The Patriotic Woman
Director

Germany in Autumn
Director

Germany in Autumn
Screenplay
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
Director
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
Writer
Nachrichten von den Staufern
Director
Nachrichten von den Staufern
Writer

Strongman Ferdinand
Director

Strongman Ferdinand
Writer

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

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

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
Director

The Journey to Vienna
Writer

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
Writer

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
Writer

Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
Director

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
Director

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
Writer

The Big Mess
Writer

The Big Mess
Director
Reform Circus

The Indomitable Leni Peickert
Writer

The Indomitable Leni Peickert
Director

A Doctor From Haberstadt
Director

A Doctor From Haberstadt
Writer
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
Producer

Die Erben von Papas Kino

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Director
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
Director

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Writer
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
Writer

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Producer

Yesterday Girl
Director

Yesterday Girl
Writer

Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
Director

Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
Writer

Yesterday Girl
Producer

Yesterday Girl
Short Story

News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
Director
A Poker Game
Director
A Poker Game
Editor

...Geist und ein wenig Glück
Himself
Policeman's Lot
Director
Policeman's Lot
Writer
Grimme Award
Self
Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve
Director
Protocol of a Revolution
Director

Lehrer im Wandel
Writer

Lehrer im Wandel
Director
Protocol of a Revolution
Writer

Brutality in Stone
Director

Brutality in Stone
Writer
Rennen
Director
Thema Amore
Director

Brutality in Stone
Producer
Rennfahrer
Producer
Thema Amore
Writer
Rennfahrer
Director

The Tiger of Eschnapur
Assistant Director

The Indian Tomb
Assistant Director
German Film Award
Self

Bambi
Self

Finite and Infinite Games
Himself
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
Director
Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?
Director
Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele
Director
Spinoza und die Modi Gottes
Director
Love in a spacesuit
Director
The most beautiful treasure of evolution
Director
Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung
Director
Clinton's Chief Economist
Director