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.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
as Self
2017
Britain’s Glory
Director (Directing)
2016
The Light of the World
Writer (Writing)
2015
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Director (Directing)
2014
Syrakus
Director (Directing)
2012
Studies for the Decay of the West
Director (Directing)
2010
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
Director (Directing)
2010
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
Director (Directing)
2009
The Last Year
Director (Directing)
2009
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
Director (Directing)
2006
D’Annunzio’s Cave
Director of Photography (Camera)
2005
Histoire du cinema
Director (Directing)
2005
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
Director (Directing)
2004
Sulla
Writer (Writing)
2003
The Critical Mass
as Himself
1999
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
Director (Directing)
1995
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
Director (Directing)
1994
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
Director (Directing)
1994
The Open Universe
Director (Directing)
1993
Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
Director (Directing)
1992
The Holy Bunch
1991
Burning Beds
1988
Out of New York
Director (Directing)
1988
At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
Director (Directing)
1985
Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
Director (Directing)
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
2084
Director (Directing)
1982
The Blanket of Life
Director (Directing)
1981
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
Director (Directing)
1981
Richard
Director (Directing)
1981
The Scenic Sacrifice
Director (Directing)
1980
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Director (Directing)
1979
Four Shadows
1978
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
Director (Directing)
1978
Valiantly Towards the Waves
Director (Directing)
1977
Der Ort der Handlung
Producer (Production)
1977
6 Small Pieces of Film
Director (Directing)
1977
Housefilm
Director (Directing)
1976
Syntax
Director (Directing)
1976
Bartleby
Director (Directing)
1976
Pictures of the Lost Word
Director (Directing)
1975
Window Film
Director (Directing)
1975
Flight from SF to NYC
Director (Directing)
1975
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Second Unit (Crew)
1974
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
1974
Diwan
1974
Elementary Filmhistory
Director (Directing)
1974
The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty
Director (Directing)
1974
The Birth of a Nation
as Narrator
1973
4 Rural Sketches
Director (Directing)
1972