Overview
- Kluge’s publisher Suhrkamp Verlag and his family confirmed he died in Munich, with no cause disclosed.
- A principal signatory of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto, he pushed for auteur-led filmmaking that helped launch the New German Cinema movement.
- His breakthrough Yesterday Girl won Venice’s Silver Lion in 1966, followed by the Golden Lion in 1968 for Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed.
- The Berlin Film Festival said it mourned Kluge and praised his enduring influence on German cinema and generations of directors.
- He expanded beyond film by founding the TV production company dctp in 1987 and capped his career with Primitive Diversity, a 2025 AI-themed visual essay that premiered at Rotterdam.