{"id":156878,"date":"2026-03-26T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queonnda.com\/legendary-filmmaker-alexander-kluge-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:41:11","slug":"legendary-filmmaker-alexander-kluge-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queonnda.com\/en\/legendary-filmmaker-alexander-kluge-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary filmmaker Alexander Kluge dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/queonnda.com\/en\/nick-reiner-suffered-from-schizophrenia-prior-to-attacking-filmmaker-rob-reiner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filmmaker<\/a> and writer Alexander Kluge &#8211; one of the representatives of the so-called New German Cinema of the 1960s &#8211; died at the age of 94 in Munich, the Surhkamp publishing house announced Thursday on behalf of the family.<\/p>\n<p>His first feature film, &#8220;Farewell to Yesterday&#8221;, won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966 and his literary work won him the Georg B\u00fcchner Prize in 2003, the most important German-language prize for a writer&#8217;s complete works.<\/p>\n<p>In 1968 he won the Golden Lion in Venice with &#8220;The Artists in the Circus Dome&#8221; and in 1982 he received a special award from the festival for his entire film oeuvre.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156766\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-156766 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/queonnda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-03-26-a-las-11.37.25.jpg\" alt=\"Filmmaker Alexander Kluge dies\" width=\"1200\" height=\"777\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: &#8216;X&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much of his literary work consists of short stories collected in books such as &#8220;El hueco que deja el demonio,&#8221; a selection of which has been published in Spanish by Anagrama.<\/p>\n<p>Kluge, alongside Volker Schl\u00f6ndorf and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, was among the directors involved in the film &#8220;Germany in Autumn&#8221; (1978) which is a confrontation with the terrorist offensive of the Red Army Fraction (RAF) gang in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1932 in Halberstadt (eastern Germany) Kluge made his debut as a writer in 1962 with &#8220;Lebenslaufe&#8221; (Leaves of Life), a series of fictional biographies in which he traverses German history around the turning point of 1945.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156767\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-156767 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/queonnda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-03-26-a-las-11.37.34.jpg\" alt=\"Filmmaker Alexander Kluge dies\" width=\"1200\" height=\"840\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: &#8216;X&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the same year Kluge was one of the signatories of the so-called Oberhausen Manifesto, considered the founding document of the New German Cinema.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We live in a strangely changing world,&#8221; he said a few weeks ago in a dialogue with his recently deceased friend J\u00fcrgen Habermas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some are even talking about a murky illustration that has emerged around Silicon Valley,&#8221; he added, reported Agencia EFE.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/queonnda.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;QueOnnda.com&#8217;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge &#8211; one of the representatives of the so-called New German Cinema of the 1960s &#8211; died at the age of 94 in Munich, the Surhkamp publishing house announced Thursday on behalf of the family. 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