Accreditation Form

34th European Film Awards
Berlin

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The entered and transmitted personal data will be stored in the European Film Academy database and used to contact you in connection with the accreditation process and for information purposes concerning the European Film Awards.

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27 Mar 2026

In Memoriam Alexander Kluge

Influential German Filmmaker Alexander Kluge Dies at the Age of 94

Born in Halberstadt in 1932, director, producer, author and screenwriter Alexander Kluge became one of the most influential members and co-founders of „New German Cinema“.

After his studies of Law and History, he started out as a lawyer but soon began his literary work, teaching and heading alongside Edgar Reitz the film department at the School of Design in Ulm. He was one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962, which, associated with the motto „Papas Kino ist tot“ (Daddy’s cinema’s dead), demanded an end to the lightweight comedies and musicals that had been dominating German film, and laid the groundwork for a new, modern and more courageous German film culture, putting an emphasis on personal authorship and political relevance.

Alexander Kluge helped re-shape German film and his works were screened in Berlin, Cannes and Venice. His career includes more than 150 films and he worked with directors like Volker Schlöndorff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Edgar Reitz and many others.

Among this multitude of films are

YESTERDAY GIRL (1966) which premiered in Venice winning the Special Jury Prize and received the German Film Award in Gold
THE BIG MESS (1971) which received a recommendation in Berlin’s Forum of New Cinema
IN DANGER AND DIRE DISTRESS THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD LEADS TO DEATH (1974) which won the German Film Award in Gold
THE ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED (1968) which won the Golden Lion in Venice and the German Film Award in Gold
THE CANDIDATE (1980) which played in Un Certain Regard in Cannes

Alexander Kluge’s work was celebrated with a Career Golden Lion in Venice in 1982, an honorary German Film Award in 2008 and the prestigious honorary Grimme Award in 2010.

Above all, he remained a vigilant and politically active voice throughout his career and we will miss him. He died on 25 March 2026.