Klaus Wyborny
Directing
Born June 5, 1945 · Bittkau, Germany
Klaus Wyborny (b.June 5, 1945 in Bittkau bei Magdeburg; lives and works in Hamburg) is a German filmmaker, producer, film director, actor, cameraman and screenwriter, known for his experimental films. Klaus Wyborny studied from 1963 to 1970 Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and the Yeshiva University in New York City. Wyborny was co-founder in 1968, with Hellmuth Costard, Thomas Struck, Werner Nekes, Helmut Herbst, Werner Grassmann, and others, of the Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative, which took the New American Cinema as an example and would develop an European version of American underground cinema. He worked for the literary journals BOA VISTA and Henry, and was co-founder of the 'Hamburger Filmgespräche'. Klaus Wyborny participated with others in the Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with Das abenteuerliche, aber glücklose Leben des William Parmagino, Dallas Texas - After the Goldrush, Chimney Piece and A Crowd in the Face, and Percy McPhee in the section Film review: New European Cinema on the Documenta 6 (1977). Wyborny participated in 1975, 1980-1982, 1986, 1992 and 1994 at the International Forum of New Cinema in Berlin. He was also several times (2002, 2005, 2010) represented at the Viennale Festival in Vienna. In 2003 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
Directed (56)
Britain’s Glory
2016
The Light of the World
2015
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
2014
Syrakus
2012
Studies for the Decay of the West
2010
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
2010
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
2009
The Last Year
2009
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
2006
Histoire du cinema
2005
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
2004
Sulla
2003
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
1995
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
1994
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
1994
The Open Universe
1993
Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
1992
Out of New York
1988
At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
1985
Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
1985
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
1985
2084
1982
The Blanket of Life
1981
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
1981
Richard
1981
The Scenic Sacrifice
1980
Potpourri from "East of No West"
1979
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
1978
Valiantly Towards the Waves
1977
Der Ort der Handlung
1977
6 Small Pieces of Film
1977
Housefilm
1976
Syntax
1976
Bartleby
1976
Pictures of the Lost Word
1975
Window Film
1975
Flight from SF to NYC
1975
Elementary Filmhistory
1974
The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty
1974
The Birth of a Nation
1973
4 Rural Sketches
1972
Chimney Piece
1971
Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush
1971
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
1970
Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik
1970
The Haunted Screen
1969
Thorium 232
1969
The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino
1969
The Greatest Crime of All Time
1969
Up to the Stars
1968
Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John
1968
A Crowd in the Face
1968
Im KZ
1968
Home Sweet Home
1968
Der Markt von Ringköbing
1968
Going to Stuttgart
1967
Acting (15)
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
2017
The Critical Mass
1999
The Holy Bunch
1991
Burning Beds
1988
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis
1983
Four Shadows
1978
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
1974
Diwan
1974
The Birth of a Nation
1973
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
1969
A Crowd in the Face
1968
Im KZ
1968
Null-Null-Zero
1968
One Brachet Close Brachet
1966