
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.

Die Geburt der Nation

Studien zum Untergang des Abendlands

Histoire du cinema

Bilder vom verlorenen Wort

Elementare Filmgeschichte

Richard

Am Rand der Finsternis (Lieder der Erde Teil 1)

Gnade und Dinge (Lieder der Erde Teil 5)

Der Ort der Handlung

Das offene Universum

Syrakus

Studien zu Monet (im imaginären Museum)

Britain’s Glory

Sulla

Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven

Die Decke des Lebens

Syntax

Bartleby

2084

Drei Miniaturen nach Melanie Klein

Dämonische Leinwand - Der deutsche Film der zwanziger Jahre

Das Letzte Jahr

Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)