Overview
- Publisher Suhrkamp, citing his family, said Thursday that Kluge died Wednesday in Munich at age 94.
- A signatory of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto, he became a leading voice of New German Cinema with films like Yesterday’s Girl and Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed.
- In 1987 he co‑founded dctp, which placed independent cultural and science shows in required third‑party windows on RTL and Sat.1, including Spiegel TV.
- He studied law, worked at Frankfurt’s Institute for Social Research with Theodor W. Adorno, and apprenticed with director Fritz Lang before moving into filmmaking.
- He stayed active into his 90s, publishing a 2024 book with artist Anselm Kiefer and earning major prizes across decades for his films and short fiction.