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.
Elementary Filmhistory
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Richard
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Studies for the Decay of the West
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The Birth of a Nation
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Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
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Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
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Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
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At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
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Cinéma Vérité
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Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
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The Scenic Sacrifice
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From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
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Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
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6 Small Pieces of Film
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Window Film
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Pictures of the Lost Word
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Valiantly Towards the Waves
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Flight from SF to NYC
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Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
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The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty
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Housefilm
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Potpourri from "East of No West"
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4 Rural Sketches
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Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush
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A Crowd in the Face
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The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino
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Up to the Stars
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Chimney Piece
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Thorium 232
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Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John
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Home Sweet Home
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The Greatest Crime of All Time
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Im KZ
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The Birth of a Nation
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Der Ort der Handlung
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Der Ort der Handlung
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Der Ort der Handlung
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Studies for the Decay of the West
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The Open Universe
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Syrakus
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Syrakus
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The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
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Programmhinweise
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Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
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Britain’s Glory
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Sulla
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Sulla
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Sulla
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Sulla
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Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
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The Blanket of Life
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Histoire du cinema
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Syntax
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Bartleby
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Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
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3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
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2084
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Der Ort der Handlung
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The Light of the World
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The Light of the World
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The Birth of a Nation
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Cinéma Vérité
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The Light of the World
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Britain’s Glory
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Britain’s Glory
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Studies for the Decay of the West
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Syrakus
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Syrakus
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D’Annunzio’s Cave
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Studies for the Decay of the West
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The Light of the World
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Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
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Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
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Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
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Studies for the Decay of the West
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Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
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The Haunted Screen
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The Last Year
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The Light of the World
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The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
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Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
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Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
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Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
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Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
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Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
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