Alexander Kluge Movies

The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...

"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, which could be considered good without qualification, except a good will." Various egos are at work,...

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.

The domain of love is intimacy. It orients itself on the individual and the specific. At the same time, it is in fact less individual than one might...

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...

Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Eric R. Kandel from Columbia University, New York, is considered the "Einstein of brain research". In the year 2000 he...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals".

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

How does Clausewitz define war? What does the US president mean when he talks of a new kind of war in the 21st century? What does history teach us...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Images from the Versailles summit in 1982 and from the summit at the Munich Residence in 1992: The leaders and their men. Also, images from the "hot...

As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played...

With Durs Grünbein The Dresden poet Durs Grünbein published a book entitled "To the Dear Dead: 33 Epitaphs." It enlisted the use of an...

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...

A short by Alexander Kluge.