Klaus Wyborny
DirectingKlaus 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.
Known For
Filmography — Acting
Burning Beds
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
Self
Home Movies 1971-81
Four Shadows
The Holy Bunch
Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis
(cameo)
Null-Null-Zero
The Critical Mass
Himself
Diwan
Im KZ
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
The Birth of a Nation
Narrator
A Crowd in the Face
One Brachet Close Brachet
Filmography — Crew
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
Director
The Open Universe
Director
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
Director
Sulla
Director
Pictures of the Lost Word
Director
Der Ort der Handlung
Director
Bartleby
Director
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
Director
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
Director
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
Director
Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John
Director
Null-Null-Zero
Writer
Thorium 232
Director
4 Rural Sketches
Director
Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush
Director
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
Director
The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty
Director
The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino
Director
6 Small Pieces of Film
Director
Housefilm
Director
The Light of the World
Producer
Im KZ
Director
Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik
Director
Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
Director
Up to the Stars
Director
Window Film
Director
Prince and Delusion
Writer
Flight from SF to NYC
Director
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
Writer
Elementary Filmhistory
Director
Chimney Piece
Director
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Director
The Scenic Sacrifice
Director
Home Sweet Home
Director
Going to Stuttgart
Director
Out of New York
Director
The Birth of a Nation
Director
At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
Director
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Director
A Crowd in the Face
Director
The Haunted Screen
Director
Valiantly Towards the Waves
Director
Der Markt von Ringköbing
Director
The Greatest Crime of All Time
Director
The Last Year
Director
Richard
Director
Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
Director
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
Director
Syrakus
Director
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
Director
Histoire du cinema
Director
Syntax
Director
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
Director
Studies for the Decay of the West
Director
The Blanket of Life
Director
Britain’s Glory
Director
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
Director
2084
Director
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
Director