Klaus Wyborny
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-06-05 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Bittkau, Germany
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.
Acting
(2017)
(1999)
The Critical Mass
as Himself
(1991)
(1988)
(1985)
(1978)
(1974)
(1974)
(1973)
The Birth of a Nation
as Narrator
(1968)
(1968)
(1966)
Crew
(2016)
Cinéma Vérité
Director, Director of Photography
(2016)
Britain’s Glory
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
(2015)
The Light of the World
Director of Photography, Producer, Writer, Editor, Director
(2014)
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
(2012)
Syrakus
Editor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
(2010)
Studies for the Decay of the West
Director, Editor, Writer, Original Music Composer, Director of Photography
(2010)
(2009)
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
Director
(2009)
The Last Year
Director
(2006)
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
Director
(2005)
Histoire du cinema
Director
(2005)
D’Annunzio’s Cave
Director of Photography
(2004)
(2003)
Sulla
Editor, Director, Director of Photography, Writer
(1995)
(1994)
(1994)
(1993)
The Open Universe
Director
(1992)
(1985)
(1985)
(1982)
2084
Director
(1981)
Richard
Director
(1981)
The Blanket of Life
Director
(1981)
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
Director
(1980)
The Scenic Sacrifice
Director
(1979)
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Director
(1978)
(1977)
6 Small Pieces of Film
Director
(1977)
Valiantly Towards the Waves
Director
(1977)
Der Ort der Handlung
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
(1976)
Housefilm
Director
(1976)
Syntax
Director
(1976)
Bartleby
Director
(1975)
Window Film
Director
(1975)
Pictures of the Lost Word
Director
(1975)
Flight from SF to NYC
Director
(1974)
Elementary Filmhistory
Director
(1974)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Second Unit
(1974)
The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty
Director
(1974)
(1973)
The Birth of a Nation
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
(1972)
4 Rural Sketches
Director
(1971)
(1971)
Chimney Piece
Director
(1970)
Programmhinweise
Sound
(1970)
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer, Writer
(1970)
(1969)
The Greatest Crime of All Time
Director
(1969)
(1969)
Thorium 232
Director
(1969)
The Haunted Screen
Director
(1968)
A Crowd in the Face
Director
(1968)
Im KZ
Director
(1968)
Home Sweet Home
Director
(1968)
(1968)
Up to the Stars
Director
(1968)
Der Markt von Ringköbing
Director
(1967)
Going to Stuttgart
Director