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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.


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Born:
Jun 5, 1945 In Bittkau, Germany
Movie/TV Credits:
9
First Appeared:
In the movie Klammer auf Klammer zu 1966-11-01
Latest Project:
Movie Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern 2017-11-09
Known For
Poster of The Critical Mass
Poster of The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
Poster of The Birth of a Nation
Poster of Klammer auf Klammer zu
Filmography
Movie Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern Self 2017-11-09
Movie The Critical Mass Himself 1999-07-01
Movie The Holy Bunch 1991-02-17
Movie Burning Beds 1988-10-30
Movie Home Movies 1971-81 1985-01-01
Movie The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson 1974-05-22
Movie Diwan 1974-02-02
Movie The Birth of a Nation Narrator 1973-05-30
Movie Klammer auf Klammer zu 1966-11-01