Alexander Kluge
Alexander Ernst Kluge was a German author, film director, academic and founder of a television production company. After studies with Theodor W. Adorno in Frankfurt, he worked as an assistant to Fritz Lang for The Tiger of Eschnapur. He directed his first film, Brutality in Stone, in 1960, a short montage dealing with the Nazi past. He became instrumental for New German Cinema, establishing an institute for film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm. Among his signature films were Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed in 1968 and The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time in 1985. In 1987 Kluge founded the television production company DCTP, producing for private television.
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The Klimperclown
actor
2025
Orphea
director
2021
Orphea
writer
2021
Happy Lamento
director
2019
Happy Lamento
writer
2019
Mülheim Texas - Helge Schneider hier und dort
actor
2015
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director
2012
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
director
2008
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
writer
2008
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
director
2000
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
writer
1998
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
director
1998
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
actor
1998
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director
1987
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director
1987
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director
1987
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director
1987
Miscellaneous News
director
1986
Miscellaneous News
writer
1986
The Power of Emotion
director
1983
The Power of Emotion
writer
1983
The Patriotic Woman
director
1980
The Candidate
director
1980
Germany in Autumn
writer
1978
Germany in Autumn
director
1978
Der starke Ferdinand
writer
1977
Der starke Ferdinand
director
1977
In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death
director
1975
In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death
writer
1975
Trip to Vienna
writer
1973
The Big Mess
director
1971
The Big Mess
writer
1971
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director
1970
Willi Tobler and the Destruction of the 6th Fleet
director
1969
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
director
1968
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
writer
1968
Yesterday Girl
director
1966
Yesterday Girl
writer
1966