Alexander Kluge Movies

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

A glass door prevents the occupation of a room.

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.

The woman in the battlefield.

The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists," killing friend and foe...

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

Alexander Kluge reflects on Eadweard Muybridge's work and the first modern Olympics.

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...

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

Did the primal ocean originally cover the entire planet? What happened to organic life during and after the great ice age, which is sometimes called...

The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.

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...

Fire brigades and rescue teams are the heroes of a disaster. They often save people's lives while risking their own. So it must have been terribly...

The German Army is today active in Africa, the Hindu Kush and in the Balkans. How do the troops respond to the new challenges? What does Clausewitz...

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

A reading by Alexander Kluge - First publication

The moon, born from the ribs of the earth, has been its companion for billions of years. It is gradually moving away from us at a rate of several...