Klaus Wyborny
Directing
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
Directing57
movieBritain’s Glory
2016
Director
movieSyrakus
2012
Director
movieThe Last Year
2009
Director
movieHistoire du cinema
2005
Director
movieSulla
2003
Director
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
1995
Director
movieThe Open Universe
1993
Director
movie2084
1982
Director
movieThe Blanket of Life
1981
Director
movieRichard
1981
Director
movieDer Ort der Handlung
1977
Director
Housefilm
1976
Director
movieSyntax
1976
Director
movieBartleby
1976
Director
Window Film
1975
Director
movieElementary Filmhistory
1974
Director
movieThe Birth of a Nation
1973
Director
movieThe Haunted Screen
1969
Director
Thorium 232
1969
Director
Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John
1968
Director
Im KZ
1968
Director
Null-Null-Zero
1968
Assistant Director
Acting15
movieThe Birth of a Nation
1973
Narrator
Writing12
movieSyrakus
2012
Writer
movieSulla
2003
Writer
Camera10
movieBritain’s Glory
2016
Director of Photography
The Light of the World
2015
Director of Photography
movieStudies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
2014
Director of Photography
movieSyrakus
2012
Director of Photography
movieStudies for the Decay of the West
2010
Director of Photography
movieD’Annunzio’s Cave
2005
Director of Photography
movieSulla
2003
Director of Photography
movieDer Ort der Handlung
1977
Director of Photography
movieThe Birth of a Nation
1973
Director of Photography
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
1969
Director of Photography
Editing7
Production4
Sound3
movieStudies for the Decay of the West
2010
Original Music Composer
Crew2
movieThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
Second Unit