Klaus Wyborny
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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.
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Bartleby (1976)
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Elementary Filmhistory (1974)
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Thorium 232 (1969)
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Housefilm (1976)
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Im KZ (1968)
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Richard (1981)
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Der Ort der Handlung (1977)
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The Open Universe (1993)
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Chimney Piece (1971)
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Studies for the Decay of the West (2010)
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Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge) (1970)
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Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal (2010)
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Syntax (1976)
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Syrakus (2012)
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6 Small Pieces of Film (1977)
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From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4) (1994)
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Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter (2009)
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The Birth of a Nation (1973)
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Potpourri from "East of No West" (1979)
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Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush (1971)
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The Light of the World (2015)
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The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino (1969)
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Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik (1970)
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3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein (1981)
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Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum) (2014)
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Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John (1968)
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4 Rural Sketches (1972)
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Window Film (1975)
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Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3) (1992)
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Histoire du cinema (2005)
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The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice (1995)
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The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty (1974)
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Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld (1994)
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Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2) (2004)
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Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5) (1985)
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A Crowd in the Face (1968)
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The Greatest Crime of All Time (1969)
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The Scenic Sacrifice (1980)
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Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film (1985)
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At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1) (1985)
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Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film (1978)
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The Haunted Screen (1969)
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Flight from SF to NYC (1975)
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Der Markt von Ringköbing (1968)
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Valiantly Towards the Waves (1977)
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2084 (1982)
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Up to the Stars (1968)
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Britain’s Glory (2016)
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Home Sweet Home (1968)
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The Last Year (2009)
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Going to Stuttgart (1967)
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Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven (2006)
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The Blanket of Life (1981)
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Out of New York (1988)
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Sulla (2003)
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Pictures of the Lost Word (1975)
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