Alexander Kluge Movies

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...

Mata Hari and the Danish baroness Carla Jesse are among the most powerful women in the history of espionage. Carla Jesse's method was the kiss of...

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...

Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

A short by Alexander Kluge.

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...

Hermes Phettberg, born October 5, 1952 in Hollabrunn, Austria, was the assistant vicar with the archdiocese of Vienna until 1981 when he was...

People who do not have the patience or the opportunity to listen to all 86,000 operas that exist in the world need an opera guide. The opera guide is...

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

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...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

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

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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...

The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death...

The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.