Alexander Kluge Movies

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

Lung fish and lions, nightingales and whales express themselves through sounds - they "sing". But humans alone have developed...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.

Video #1 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò...

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...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

Kraft durch Freude (strength through joy) in the war year 1942. In the war years, young German women had to contend with female rivals in the...

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...

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

Falling debris from space poses a danger to aircraft for which valid insurance policies have been taken out. Such cases as this are, among others,...

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

In his two books on globalization, Professor Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, describes the non-synchronism and asymmetry of the...

The G8 Summit in Heiligendamm presented the security organizers with immense problems. The seaward boundary posed a particular risk. Hans-Erich...

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

In antiquity, a mariner or hunter could identify 6000 stars with his naked eye. Modern astrophysics now researches trillions of stars, galaxies and...

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 British college tutor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly discusses the wartime deeds of fearless women. She also characterizes the male fantasies of...