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Klaus Wyborny
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 hi…
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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.
Filmography
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2017
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
Movie Self
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2016
Britain’s Glory
Movie Director
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2015
The Light of the World
Movie Director of Photography
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2014
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Movie Director
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2012
Syrakus
Movie Editor
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2010
Studies for the Decay of the West
Movie Director
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2010
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
Movie Director
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2009
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
Movie Director
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2009
The Last Year
Movie Director
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2006
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
Movie Director
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2005
D’Annunzio’s Cave
Movie Director of Photography
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2005
Histoire du cinema
Movie Director
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2004
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
Movie Director
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2003
Sulla
Movie Editor
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1999
The Critical Mass
Movie Himself
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1995
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
Movie Director
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1994
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
Movie Director
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1994
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
Movie Director
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1993
The Open Universe
Movie Director
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1992
Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
Movie Director
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1991
The Holy Bunch
Movie
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1988
Burning Beds
Movie
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1988
Out of New York
Movie Director
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1988
She Must Be Seeing Things
Movie Thanks
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1985
At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
Movie Director
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1985
Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
Movie Director
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1985
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
Movie Director
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1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Movie
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1983
Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis
Movie (cameo)
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1982
2084
Movie Director
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1981
The Blanket of Life
Movie Director
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1981
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
Movie Director
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1981
Richard
Movie Director
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1980
The Scenic Sacrifice
Movie Director
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1979
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Movie Director
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1978
Four Shadows
Movie
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1978
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
Movie Director
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1977
Valiantly Towards the Waves
Movie Director
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1977
Der Ort der Handlung
Movie Director
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1977
6 Small Pieces of Film
Movie Director
