Alexander Kluge Movies

A reading by Alexander Kluge - First publication

In a timely precursor, this 40 minute talk sees Alexander Kluge and Joseph Vogl return to their customary roles. Kluge feigns the curious lay reader....

Fire brigades and rescue teams are the heroes of a disaster. They often save people's lives while risking their own. So it must have been terribly...

Terrorism and skyscrapers confront expert fire fighters with severe problems. Is it possible to plan for future catastrophes when new buildings are...

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...

The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.

Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492...

Scenes from Nabucco (1842), I due foscari (1844), Macbeth (1847), Luisa Miller (1849), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Les vépres...

The "Berliner Ensemble" is a theater company closely connected to names like Bert Brecht, Heiner Müller and Claus Peymann. Hary Balzke is the...

When the German Reich sent its declaration of war to Paris via telegram, it arrived completely garbled. It sounds like a Dada text. No one managed to...

Documentary showing the coaches of the French Revolution and more.

This video segment complements the 2014 English-language edition of History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, edited by Devin Fore and...

Car racing, speed, the spectators’ fascination, the signs of an era made of machines and competition. But “victory” is not the real...

The master Russian director Sergei Eisenstein planned in 1928 to make a film about Das Kapital by Marx. Is the "political economy" made up of...

Dr. med. Josef Schlömicher-Thier is an otorhinolaryngologist working at the Salzburg Festival. He is particularly interested in the marvel of...

There is public debate as to whether we should return to the old German orthography established by the Duden dictionary in 1991, or insist on...

The play of the century, "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen, in the Munich Volkstheater. A young person in search of his "I": Peer Gynt. We see him at the...