Alexander Kluge Movies

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

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

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...

A reading by Alexander Kluge - First publication

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

Love stories with unhappy endings, love stories with happy endings. From Romeo and Juliet in Frankfurt to the "Selfless Virgin in New York", from the...

Murder ballads, ballads, and newspaper images tell humane and terrible stories. Dr. Ulrike Spengler, who compiled the Proust ABC, reports on "the...

The explosion of a munitions train standing in the congested lines of hospital trains at the station in Hamont in Belgium caused a disaster in...

"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter. Later, the turbulent...

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

He is a music pirate, that is, he makes illegal recordings of underground music groups and sells them on the streets of New York. Cyd is the call...

Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio: Why does this person speak and not sing? He longs to sing. Singing generally emerges when language becomes...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Aristocrats playing at the simple life are surprised by a revolution. Now, under emergency conditions, love relations develop with great power....

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...

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

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...

There is no objectivity beyond desire. That is the main clause of the ancient poet Ovid ("Metamorphoses"). The creator of the twentieth-century...