Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker, whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the New German Cinema movement, has died. He was 94.
Kluge’s family confirmed his death to German media on Wednesday. A cause of death was not given.
Kluge was one of the signatories of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto, which called for a new, auteur-driven German cinema and is credited with helping spark the New German Cinema movement. He was a favorite on the international festival circuit, particularly in Venice. His 1967 debut Abschied von gestern (released in the U.S. as Yesterday Girl), which dramatized the struggles of a young Jewish refugee from East Germany, won the Silver Lion, the first postwar Italian festival prize for a German director. Two years later, Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), an experimental collage of a film, integrating newsreels and interviews
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