Alexander Kluge
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Alexander Kluge was a German male artist whose professional career spanned from 1960 to 2015. Born on February 14, 1932, he passed away on March 25, 2026. His body of work includes titles such as *Long March of Basic Trust*, *Attendance list for a funeral*, and *Lifespan Narratives*. He is also associated with the work *Alexander Kluge, Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge*.
According to Open Library records, Kluge is credited with 61 works. Crossref data lists five works under his name. His musical output has been tagged with "Ja" on Last.fm, where he accumulated 2,517 plays from 87 listeners. Additionally, his profile is referenced by 551 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 61
Top works
- Long March of Basic Trust
- Attendance list for a funeral
- Lifespan Narratives
- Alexander Kluge
- Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1932-02-14
- Active to
- 2026-03-25
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 87
- Total plays
- 2,517
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alexander+Kluge">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,030x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,543x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,516x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,579x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,949x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1932-02-14 ) 14 February 1932, Halberstadt , Saxony, Prussia, Germany
- Died
- 25 March 2026 (2026-03-25) (aged 94), Munich , Bavaria, Germany
- Education
- University of Marburg University of Frankfurt
- Occupations
- Author Film director Media manager Academic teacher
- Organizations
- Ulm School of Design DCTP
- Relatives
- Alexandra Kluge (sister)
- Awards
- Georg Büchner Prize Theodor W. Adorno Award Grimme-Preis Heinrich Heine Prize
- Website
- kluge-alexander .de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Family name
- Kluge
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Halberstadt
- Place of death
- Munich
- Sibling
- Alexandra Kluge
- Occupation
- filmmaker
- Educated at
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- Documenta 6
- Field of work
- acting
- Movement
- New German Cinema
- Official website
- www.kluge-alexander.de
- Image
- MJKr01634 Alexander Kluge (NRW-Empfang, Berlinale 2020).jpg
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- Commons category
- Alexander Kluge
- date of birth
- 1932-00-00
- member of
- Deutsche Filmakademie
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- name in native language
- Alexander Kluge
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Alexander Kluge
- end of work period
- 2015-01-01
- date of death
- 2026-03-25
- place of burial
- Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Ernst Kluge (14 February 1932 – 25 March 2026) 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 in 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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