Alexander Kluge Movies

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

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

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...

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 short by Alexander Kluge.

Directed by Alexander Kluge

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...

Selected scenes from the Christoph Schlingensief revue at the Berliner Volksbühne .

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

The domain of love is intimacy. It orients itself on the individual and the specific. At the same time, it is in fact less individual than one might...

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.

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

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...

Animatronics, elephants, puppets, politicians, and more juxtaposed using three screens.

The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...

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

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

On the subject of circuses during wartime, illustrations and more are shown.

With Durs Grünbein The Dresden poet Durs Grünbein published a book entitled "To the Dear Dead: 33 Epitaphs." It enlisted the use of an...