Known For
Directing
Born
Jun 05, 1945
Place of Birth
Bittkau, Germany
Credits
75 titles
Klaus Wyborny
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
Self
Britain’s Glory
Director
The Light of the World
Director of Photography
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Director
Syrakus
Editor
Studies for the Decay of the West
Director
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
Director
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
Director
The Last Year
Director
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
Director
The Cathedral of New Emotions
Writer
D’Annunzio’s Cave
Director of Photography
Histoire du cinema
Director
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
Director
Sulla
Editor
The Critical Mass
Himself
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
Director
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
Director
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
Director
The Open Universe
Director
Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
Director
The Holy Bunch
Burning Beds
Out of New York
Director
She Must Be Seeing Things
Thanks
At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
Director
Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
Director
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
Director
Home Movies 1971-81
Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis
(cameo)
2084
Director
The Blanket of Life
Director
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
Director
Richard
Director
The Scenic Sacrifice
Director
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Director
Four Shadows
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
Director
Valiantly Towards the Waves
Director
Der Ort der Handlung
Director
6 Small Pieces of Film
Director
Bartleby
Director
Housefilm
Director
Syntax
Director
Pictures of the Lost Word
Director
Window Film
Director
Flight from SF to NYC
Director
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Second Unit
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
Diwan