Klaus Lemke

Klaus Lemke
Born(1940-10-13)13 October 1940
Died7 July 2022(2022-07-07) (aged 81)
OccupationsDirector, screenwriter, actor
Years active1964-2021 (film)

Klaus Lemke (1940–2022) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor.[1] Associated with the New German Cinema movement, he made his feature-length debut with Forty Eight Hours to Acapulco (1967) and followed it up with Negresco (1968).[2] [3] Many of his films of the 1970s were produced for West German television.

Selected filmography

References

Bibliography

  • Gerhardt, Christina & Abel, Marco. Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968. Camden House, 2019.
  • Rother, Rainer (ed.) German Film: From the Archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024.