Alexander Kluge Movies

Collage film regarding astronomy.

In 1912 the Titanic sunk. In retrospect the event appears like a number that refers to the subsequent catastrophes of the 20th century. Hans Magnus...

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...

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

How does one protect a US president? How dangerous is the situation when, for example, the president holds a speech in Tbilisi which could provoke...

Count Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff, developed in the years up to 1905 a promising plan which was to help the German Reich...

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

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...

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

A reading by Alexander Kluge - First publication

Irm Hermann recalls the funeral of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...

His prose text "An Attempt at Love", published in 1962, can be classified in the prehistory of the Auschwitz trials and deals with the attempt by the...

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...

Not unlike reindeer there was something in these people - yet not what they wanted or intended - that was more intelligent than them. There is no...

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

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