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Klaus Wyborny
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.
As director
Britain’s Glory
The Light of the World
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Syrakus
Studies for the Decay of the West
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
The Last Year
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
Histoire du cinema
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
Sulla
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
The Open Universe
Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
Out of New York
At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
2084
Richard
The Blanket of Life
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
The Scenic Sacrifice
Potpourri from "East of No West"
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
6 Small Pieces of Film
Valiantly Towards the Waves
As actor
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
The Critical Mass
The Holy Bunch
Burning Beds
Home Movies 1971-81
Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis
Four Shadows
Diwan
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
The Birth of a Nation
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
A Crowd in the Face
Im KZ
Null-Null-Zero
One Brachet Close Brachet