Directing
Klaus Wyborny
DE, EN, XX cinema · 75 credits
Born
5 June 1945 (age 81)
Birthplace
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 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
Britain’s Glory
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Das Licht der Welt
2015
The Light of the World
Writer, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Director
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Syrakus
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
Studies for the Decay of the West
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Original Music Composer, Writer
The Last Year
Director
Histoire du cinema
Director
D’Annunzio’s Cave
Director of Photography
Eine Andere Welt (Lieder der Erde Teil 2)
2004
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
Director
Sulla
Writer, Director, Editor, Director of Photography
The Open Universe
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Music
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
1985
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
Director
2084
Director
Richard
Director
Potpourri aus 'Östlich von keinem Westen'
1979
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Director
Unerreichbar Heimatlos - Sonate auf Film
1978
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
Director
Der Ort der Handlung
Producer, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Syntax
Director
Bartleby
Director
Diwan
Actor
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
Actor, Writer
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Second Unit
The Birth of a Nation
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
Cinematography, Editor, Producer, Director, Writer
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
1969
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
Actor, Director of Photography
Thorium 232
1969
Thorium 232
Director, Writer
A Crowd in the Face
1968
A Crowd in the Face
Actor, Director
Im KZ
1968
Im KZ
Actor, Director
Null-Null-Zero
1968
Null-Null-Zero
Actor, Assistant Director, Writer