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Born in Halberstadt, Germany, in 1932. Graduated in law, Kluge is a director, writer and producer and has over a hundred movies in his filmography. In 1962, he was one of the founders of the Oberhausener Manifest, that, signed by 25 other young filmmakers, demanded the New German Cinema, which would be created later in that same decade. In 1966, he completed his first feature film, ”Yesterday Girl” which received the special jury prize at the Venice International Film Festival. Among his most famous works are “Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)”, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice, “Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave” (1973), “In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death” (1975), “Strongman Ferdinand” (1976), winner of the critics prize at the Cannes Film Festival, “Germany in Autumn” (1978) and “The Power of Feelings” (1983), winner of the critics’ prize at Venice. He was the headmaster of the film institute in Hochschule fuer Gestaltung, center of creation and design education, in Ulm. At the end of the 1980s, Kluge devoted himself to television and in 1988 he founded the production company dctp, through which he developed his own television formats.