Klaus Wyborny
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Klaus Wyborny (born June 5, 1945 in Bittkau near Magdeburg ; lives and works in Hamburg ) is a German avant-garde filmmaker , film producer , film director , actor , cameraman and screenwriter , known for his experimental films .
life and work
Klaus Wyborny studied theoretical physics from 1963 to 1970 at the University of Hamburg and at Yeshiva University in New York City .
In 1968, Wyborny co-founded the Hamburg Filmmaker Cooperative with Hellmuth Costard , Thomas Struck , Werner Nekes , Helmut Herbst , Werner Grassmann , Dore O. and others , which took American new cinema as a model and built a European variant of American underground cinema should. He worked for the literary magazines " BOA VISTA " and " HENRY " and was also a co-initiator of the "Hamburg Film Talks".
Klaus Wyborny participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with several films with The adventurous but hapless life of William Parmagino; After the gold rush; Chimney Piece, A Crowd in the Face, Dallas Texas and Percy McPhee in the Film Show: New European Cinema department and also represented with films at Documenta 6 (1977). Wyborny took part in the International Forum of New Films in Berlin in 1975, 1980 to 1982, 1986, 1992 and 1994. He was represented several times (2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) at the VIENNALE in Vienna. 2002–2003 he was visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2009 to 2015 he taught as a professor at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.
Klaus Wyborny has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 2012.
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
Filmography (selection)
Own films (script, direction, camera, editing, partly music)
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As a performer
- 1966: Klammer auf Klammer zu (Direction: Hellmuth Costard)
- 1967–1968: Null-Null-Zero (Director: Fritz Strohecker; also worked on the script)
- 1968-1969: Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers (Director: Rainhild Lüders; also camera)
- 1973–1974: Diwan (Director: Werner Nekes)
- 1974: The fantastic world of Matthew Madson (Director: Helmut Herbst)
- 1976-1977: Demon. The translation of Stéphane Mallarmé's "Unheimliche Analogie" (Direction: Heinz Emigholz )
- 1978–1982: standard sentence (director: Heinz Emigholz)
- 1983: Tropiafric - Greetings from the Wilderness (Direction: Maria Fisahn , Karol Schneeweis)
- 1983: What is an experimental film? (Director: Thomas Struck; also music)
- 1988: The feelings of the eyes (Director: Silke Grossmann)
- 1988: Burning Beds (Director: Pia Frankenberg)
- 1986–1990: The Cynical Body (Director: Heinz Emigholz)
- 1994: 365 interfaces (director: Uwe Knott, Reinhardt Beetz)
- 2012: The Butterfly Hunter - 37 index cards for Nabokov (Director: Harald Bergmann )
As a contemporary witness
- 1982: Between the pictures. 3. On the inertia of perception (Direction: Klaus Feddermann, Helmut Herbst)
- 1998: The critical mass (Director: Christian Bau )
- 2017: Werner Nekes - Life between the Pictures (Director: Ulrike Pfeiffer)
camera
- 1970: And nobody in Hollywood who understands that far too many brains have been turned around (Director: Hellmuth Costard; Camera: Hellmuth Costard, Klaus Wyborny)
- 1974: Everyone for himself and God against all (Director: Werner Herzog ; 1st camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein ; 2nd camera / image processing of the dream sequences: Klaus Wyborny)
- 2002–2005: D'Annunzios Höhle (Director: Heinz Emigholz; Camera: Irene von Alberti, Heinz Emigholz, Elfi Mikesch , Klaus Wyborny)
Publications (selection)
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Film review , No. 274 from October 1979. Therein:
- Unordered notes on conventional narrative film . Reprint from Boa Vista (1976) slightly abridged.
- Klaus Wyborny in conversation with Hartmut Bitomsky , Harun Farocki u. a. under the title The Grammar of World Conquest .
- Project description - The Open Universe . In: Filmwärts , No. 17 from 1990.
- Wedding night II ( dedicated to Ken Jacobs - Hamburg, September 24-28, 2005) . In: Michael Baute and Volker Pantenburg (eds.), Minute texts: The Night of the Hunter . Brinkmann and Bose, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-922660-94-0 . Klaus Wyborny's text, pp. 95-107, covers minute 31 of the film.
- Elementary editing theory of feature films (= film theory writings, volume 1). LIT Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-643-11053-4 .
- Basics of a topology of the narrative (= film theory writings, volume 2). LIT Verlag, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-643-11054-1 .
- Attempts - On the way to a cutting theory / applied topology / exploration of marginal areas (= film theory writings, volume 3). LIT Verlag, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-643-12311-4 .
Web links
- Klaus Wyborny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- filmportal.de
- Homepage about Klaus Wyborny
- Exhibitions: Art Aspects
- Materials by and about Klaus Wyborny in the documenta archive
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| SURNAME | Wyborny, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker, film producer, film director, actor, cameraman and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bittkau , Magdeburg |