Alexander Kluge
German writer, philosopher, academic and film director (1932–2026)
1.00body-of-work score · ranked #849 of 2640 directors · 1 film in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- February 14, 1932 · Halberstadt
- Died
- March 25, 2026 · Munich
- Nationality
- Germany
- Directing career
- 34 directorial credits, 1961–2020 · first: Brutality in Stone (1961) · last: Orphea (2020)
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, writer, lawyer
- Movement
- New German Cinema
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedDie Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos
1968 · Germany · drama
Venice Golden Lion winner 1968
1.001 citation
Complete filmography
All 34 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1961Brutality in Stone
- 1966Yesterday Girl
- 1968Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
- 1969Willi Tobler and the Destruction of the 6th Fleet
- 1970Die unbezähmbare Leni Peickert
- 1971The Big Mess
- 1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
- 1974In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death
- 1976Der starke Ferdinand
- 1978Deutschland im Herbst. Episode 01: Prolog: Beerdigung von Hanns Martin Schleyer
- 1978Deutschland im Herbst. Episode 03: Staatsakt für Hanns Martin Schleyer
- 1978Deutschland im Herbst. Episode 09: Gabi Teichert
- 1978Deutschland im Herbst. Episode 11: Herbstlied von Tschaikowsky
- 1978Deutschland im Herbst. Episode 12: Auf dem Parteitag der SPD in Hamburg
- 1978Deutschland im Herbst. Episode 14: Die Beerdigung in Stuttgart
- 1978Germany in Autumn
- 1979The Patriotic Woman
- 1980The Candidate
- 1983The Power of Emotion
- 1986Miscellaneous News
- 1987Krieg und Frieden
- 1987Krieg und Frieden. 01. Episode: Rahmenhandlung
- 1987Krieg und Frieden. 02. Episode: Der Friedensmarsch der Dreihunderttausend in Bonn
- 1987Krieg und Frieden. 03. Episode: Vom Standpunkt der Infanterie
- 1998The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
- 2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
- 2009Nachrichten vom Tausendfüßler
- 2012Mensch 2.0 - Die Evolution in unserer Hand
- 2018Happy Lamento
- 2020Orphea
- —Die Ewigkeit von gestern
- —Ein Liebesversuch (Kurzfilm 1998)
- —Lehrer im Wandel
- —Porträt einer Bewährung
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