Alexander Kluge Movies

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...

With over 200 years it has been considered that romantic relationships must be spontaneous. This is paradoxical insofar as the imperative form "must"...

Spinoza being anti-authoritarian in the name of God/ That is the position of philosopher Spinoza

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

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

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

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

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...

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the...

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...

The very first tanks, which appeared on the battlefield of WWI in 1915, were called "Little Willi" and "Mother". It seemed they had not yet been...

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between...

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

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

All the operas put together (and there are a total of 80,000 in the history of opera) form one single score. They accompany the past 400 years of...

Durs Grünbein's "Moscow Menagerie" is about a rare Saiga antelope, a female cheetah, a Mafioso named "Ironhand", the on-duty cobras...